233622 - Don't lose all prefs after encountering one broken pref

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 107264

(Core :: Preferences: Backend, defect)

Description

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

In bug #98533, Brendan Eich said:
else error, ignore this line (if not the whole file?).

and Darin Fisher said:
"i'm actually making PREF_ParseBuf return PR_FALSE if any syntax error is
discovered.  i like this better than just discarding the rest of the current
line since a pref function call might actually span several lines.  recovering
from syntax errors is a rats nest i'd prefer to avoid."

I don't think it should be too difficult to at least attempt to continue parsing
- I think I'll give it a shot.  It would annoy me a lot to lose half of my prefs
because of one error.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 107264 ***