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VistaIOSetWarningHandler

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NAME

VistaIOSetWarningHandler - register a procedure to be called on any nonfatal error

SYNOPSIS

void VistaIOSetWarningHandler (VistaIOWarningHandler * handler )

typedef void VistaIOWarningHandler (VistaIOStringConst message );

void VistaIODefaultWarning (VistaIOStringConst message );

ARGUMENTS

handler

Specifies the new nonfatal error handler.

message

Specifies a null-terminated error message string to be reported.

DESCRIPTION

VistaIOSetWarningHandler registers a procedure, handler , as the nonfatal error handler. That procedure is called by VistaIOWarning (3) or by VistaIOSystemWarning (3) to report any nonfatal error. When called it is passed a string, message , containing a textual description of the error.

Only one procedure serves as the nonfatal error handler at any one time.

Prior to the first call to VistaIOSetWarningHandler , the procedure VistaIODefaultWarning is the nonfatal error handler. This procedure will write the error message to the standard error stream, then return. VistaIODefaultWarning can be re-established as the fatal error handler at any time by calling VistaIOSetWarningHandler with a NULL argument.

EXAMPLES

To adopt a warning handler that writes messages both to the standard error stream and to a log file, one might do the following:

FILE *log_file;

void MyWarningHandler (message)

VistaIOStringConst message;

{

fputs (message, stderr);

fputs (message, log_file);

}

int main ( ... )
{

...

log_file = fopen ("log", "w");

VistaIOSetWarningHandler (MyWarningHandler);

...

}

SEE ALSO

VistaIOWarning (3), VistaIOSetErrorHandler (3),

AUTHOR

Art Pope <pope@cs.ubc.ca>

Adaption to vistaio: Gert Wollny <gw.fossdev@gmail.com>