[sleuthkit-developers] Re: IO Subsystem patch for fstools

[Brian C. <ca...@sl...>]

> The major change now is that I implemented exception handling 
> throughout all
> the libraries used by the io subsystem. I did not touch the rest of 
> fstools
> for the moment, just until i get the general opinion from the list 
> about this
> move, but in the long term I believe that all code should be converted 
> to use
> exceptions, rather than calling error().

I agree.  The error() functionality is a TCT legacy and I have no 
issues with adding exceptions.

My time has been extremely limited for working on the tools, but here 
are my goals for the next few months.

- I have most of Autopsy changed for v2 and would like to get that out 
in the next couple of weeks.

-  Start planning what v2 for The Sleuth Kit will look like.  So far we 
have the following potential additions:
   - New image format support and corresponding library
   - indexing support
   - Re-examine output data of tools (such as ils)
   - Add exception handling

Anything else I have forgotten about?

brian