crash when path not exists

[ylxdzsw]

I'm using JLD on Windows. It crashes if the file path does not exist.

julia> using JLD

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 0.6.1
Commit 0d7248e2ff* (2017-10-24 22:15 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 Eight-Core Processor
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  BLAS: libopenblas (USE64BITINT DYNAMIC_ARCH NO_AFFINITY Barcelona)
  LAPACK: libopenblas64_
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-3.9.1 (ORCJIT, generic)

julia> save("../non_exist/w.jld", "w", [2])
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.13) thread 0:
  #000: /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/hdf5-1.8.13/src/H5F.c line 1512 in H5Fcreate(): unable to create file
    major: File accessibilty
    minor: Unable to open file
  #001: /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/hdf5-1.8.13/src/H5F.c line 1301 in H5F_open(): unable to open file: time = Sun Dec 31 00:14:01 2017
, name = '../non_exist/w.jld', tent_flags = 13
    major: File accessibilty
    minor: Unable to open file
  #002: /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/hdf5-1.8.13/src/H5FD.c line 985 in H5FD_open(): open failed
    major: Virtual File Layer
    minor: Unable to initialize object
  #003: /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/hdf5-1.8.13/src/H5FDsec2.c line 343 in H5FD_sec2_open(): unable to open file: name = '../non_exist/w.jld', errno = 2, error message = 'No such file or directory', flags = 13, o_flags = 302
    major: File accessibilty
    minor: Unable to open file

Please submit a bug report with steps to reproduce this fault, and any error messages that follow (in their entirety). Thanks.
Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION at 0x64f1f284 -- jl_f_tuple at /home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src/home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src\builtins.c:567
while loading no file, in expression starting on line 0
jl_f_tuple at /home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src/home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src\builtins.c:567
eval_user_input at .\REPL.jl:78
unknown function (ip: 0000000061D25135)
jl_call_fptr_internal at /home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src/home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src\julia_internal.h:339 [inlined]
jl_call_method_internal at /home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src/home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src\julia_internal.h:358 [inlined]
jl_apply_generic at /home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src/home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src\gf.c:1926
macro expansion at .\REPL.jl:97 [inlined]
#1 at .\event.jl:73
unknown function (ip: 000000000BC324D3)
jl_call_fptr_internal at /home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src/home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src\julia_internal.h:339 [inlined]
jl_call_method_internal at /home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src/home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src\julia_internal.h:358 [inlined]
jl_apply_generic at /home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src/home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src\gf.c:1926
jl_apply at /home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src/home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src\julia.h:1424 [inlined]
start_task at /home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src/home/Administrator/buildbot/slave/package_win6_2-x64/build/src\task.c:267
Allocations: 4715688 (Pool: 4713995; Big: 1693); GC: 8

This behaviour might be reasonable, but I lost all my work when I trying to save them in a REPL. If JLD is meant to be something like .mat, it shouldn't be so fragile to crash all works with a single mistake.

[ararslan]

Does it work with JLD2?

[ylxdzsw]

Yes, It just throws an error. No crash occurs.
Thanks for pointing JLD2. It seems very good. I will use it.