Drop the use of exceptions for fatal error handling.

[cumulus.git] / metadata.cc

diff --git a/metadata.cc b/metadata.cc
index d946386..e1ea1aa 100644 (file)
--- a/metadata.cc
+++ b/metadata.cc
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
  * handling of the statcache, and re-use of metadata between snapshots.
  */
 
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
 #include <string>
 #include <iostream>
 #include <map>
@@ -126,7 +128,7 @@ MetadataWriter::MetadataWriter(TarSegmentStore *store,
     if (statcache_out == NULL) {
         fprintf(stderr, "Error opening statcache %s: %m\n",
                 statcache_tmp_path.c_str());
-        throw IOException("Error opening statcache");
+        fatal("Error opening statcache");
     }
 
     old_metadata_eof = false;