Hrm. I see, for example, various cases where code in the wild creates empty dconf databases by just touching the filename.
So I take it back: I believe that a zero-length file is supposed to work, and the aforementioned crashing pointer dereference is the actual bug.
Hrm. I see, for example, various cases where code in the wild creates empty dconf databases by just touching the filename.
So I take it back: I believe that a zero-length file is supposed to work, and the aforementioned crashing pointer dereference is the actual bug.