utils: Propagate IncludeHandler file loading failures to DXC instead of a panic #27
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Not all file loading should be fallible; DXC usually invokes the loader with multiple paths depending on relative includes, and happily accepts and expects us to return
-2_147_024_894 // ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND / 0x80070002
for some. As such the precedent should be to not panic but let DXC decide if file loading failures should be critical or simply result in a different path being tested.In my case though the error seems to originate from DXIL compilation being largely untested when ran on Linux systems through the WinAadapter codepath. In this particular stacktrace below DXC seems to "stat" (get file information) for the current working directory, and somehow ends up trying to open the directory as file through our include handler:
This stacktrace originates from the following panic: