[erlang-questions] inets services startup

[Serge Aleynikov]

While accidentally entering wrong information in inets' server 
configuration file I got an error report stating that a child spec was 
not created.  As a result the corresponding service didn't get started.

Upon examining sources, I found the following code with 
exit({error,Reason}) commented out:

httpd_sup.erl:
==============
child_spec([], Acc) ->
     Acc;
child_spec([{httpd, HttpdService} | Rest], Acc) ->
     NewHttpdService = mk_tuple_list(HttpdService),
     %%    Acc2 = child_spec2(NewHttpdService,Acc),
     NewAcc=
     case catch child_spec2(NewHttpdService) of
         {ok,Acc2} ->
         [Acc2|Acc];
         {error,Reason} ->
         error_msg("failed to create child spec for ~n~p~ndue to: ~p",
               [HttpdService,Reason]),
%       exit({error,Reason})
         Acc
     end,
     child_spec(Rest,NewAcc).

I was wondering what the authors had in mind by somewhat silently 
ignoring the critical error at startup.  Wouldn't it be proper to 
uncomment that line?

Serge

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Serge Aleynikov
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