# HG changeset patch
# User rubidium <rubidium@openttd.org>
# Date 2010-03-15 17:44:54
# Node ID 6c3ace5f137c42a64a019504aaa7f2f0a47d9472
# Parent  a1801b3f007f75d2d2996cf0265ead1a63ed39ae

(svn r19427) -Codechange: gracefully handle the case where we can't open a .tar file.

diff --git a/src/fileio.cpp b/src/fileio.cpp
--- a/src/fileio.cpp
+++ b/src/fileio.cpp
@@ -563,7 +563,11 @@ bool TarListAddFile(const char *filename
 	if (it != _tar_list.end()) return false;
 
 	FILE *f = fopen(filename, "rb");
-	assert(f != NULL);
+	/* Although the file has been found there can be
+	 * a number of reasons we cannot open the file.
+	 * Most common case is when we simply have not
+	 * been given read access. */
+	if (f == NULL) return false;
 
 	const char *dupped_filename = strdup(filename);
 	_tar_list[filename].filename = dupped_filename;