From 4165f167f2a0fdaeaae67663944d454067057314 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: miker <miker@9efc2488-bf62-4759-914b-345cdb29e865>
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 20:11:51 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Exiting with a usable error message rather than segfaulting 
 - patch provided by Scott McKellar  -
 http://list.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-dev/2007-April/000727.html

git-svn-id: svn://svn.open-ils.org/OpenSRF/trunk@866 9efc2488-bf62-4759-914b-345cdb29e865
---
 src/libstack/osrf_settings.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libstack/osrf_settings.c b/src/libstack/osrf_settings.c
index 96127d9..fa8d98e 100644
--- a/src/libstack/osrf_settings.c
+++ b/src/libstack/osrf_settings.c
@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ char* osrf_settings_host_value(char* format, ...) {
 
 jsonObject* osrf_settings_host_value_object(char* format, ...) {
 	VA_LIST_TO_STRING(format);
+
+	if( ! config ) {
+		const char * msg = "config pointer is NULL";
+		fprintf( stderr, "osrf_settings_host_value_object: %s\n", msg );
+		osrfLogError( OSRF_LOG_MARK, msg );
+		exit( 99 );
+	}
+
 	return jsonObjectFindPath(config->config, VA_BUF);
 }
 
-- 
2.43.2