X-Git-Url: http://git.tuebingen.mpg.de/?p=paraslash.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=write_common.c;h=b85699367acd45d88eb4044da6450d2717f48437;hp=2c149dfd6c295eab522c0cabdbf28d4376cabc08;hb=08be831b7b7e3e55d862eb988a604ccbde603403;hpb=f2dfd6d47a71433c530773cfbf4039de8b065369

diff --git a/write_common.c b/write_common.c
index 2c149dfd..b8569936 100644
--- a/write_common.c
+++ b/write_common.c
@@ -47,14 +47,13 @@ void writer_init(void)
  *
  * \return On success, a pointer to the gengetopt args info struct is returned
  * and \a writer_num contains the number of the writer. Otherwise this function
- * returns \p NULL.
+ * prints an error message and calls exit().
  */
-void *check_writer_arg(const char *wa, int *writer_num)
+void *check_writer_arg_or_die(const char *wa, int *writer_num)
 {
 	int i;
 
-	*writer_num = -E_WRITE_COMMON_SYNTAX;
-	PARA_INFO_LOG("checking  %s\n", wa);
+	PARA_INFO_LOG("checking %s\n", wa);
 	FOR_EACH_WRITER(i) {
 		const char *name = writer_names[i];
 		size_t len = strlen(name);
@@ -69,8 +68,8 @@ void *check_writer_arg(const char *wa, int *writer_num)
 		*writer_num = i;
 		return writers[i].parse_config_or_die(c? wa + len + 1 : "");
 	}
-	PARA_ERROR_LOG("writer not found\n");
-	return NULL;
+	PARA_EMERG_LOG("invalid writer %s\n", wa);
+	exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 }
 
 /**