Driver init failure not detected

[Sean Hinde]

> >The init function of struct driver_entry is not used for dynamic
> >drivers. See erl_ddll(3) for the details.
> >
> >/Peter
> 
> The truth is that init is indeed called when a dynamic driver 
> is loaded (it 
> is done so in the add_driver_entry function in the emulator). But the 
> return code from init is ignored. My feeling about this is 
> that this is 
> wrong, and that the return code should be checked, and the 
> emulator (or 
> erl_ddll) should unload the driver if init returns -1. But for now it 
> doesn't. You'll have to set some error variable and check 
> this later on.

It is certainly called, and I totally agree that the return value should be
checked (though what happens now is just that the following open_port call
fails safely so it is not as bad as it could be). Thanks for the tip - I'll
grunge something up for now :)

Sean



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