> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:53:20 +0100, Dave Shield
> said:
DS> The reason I'd like to make this change is that it's not just the call
DS> "read_config()" that might be affected. It would be useful if *all*
DS> the internal config processing routines (i.e. everything bar 'read_configs'
D
Dave Shield wrote:
> So it doesn't feel too out-of-the-question to tweak these
> "internal" routines to return an indication of whether any of the
> named file(s) had been found and processed. I'd argue that
> the benefits here would outweigh the cost.
+1
+Thomas
> DS> [As an aside - in order to implement this, I needed to tweak the
> DS> 'read_config' call to return a success/failure indication, rather
> DS> than void. In the attached patch, this is done using a new internal
> DS> '_read_config()' call. It might be cleaner to change the
> DS> read_config
