User-friendly error from credis-test when Redis server is not present

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credis-test.c will segfault if a connection to the redis server cannot be made. 
 There is no error handling, so this is confusing to the new user.  Here is a 
trivial patch to fix it:

--- credis-test.c.old   2010-05-19 16:50:09.000000000 -0400
+++ credis-test.c   2010-07-18 00:58:41.508511597 -0400
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@

 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
   REDIS redis = credis_connect(NULL, 0, 10000);
+  if (redis == NULL) {
+    printf("Error connecting to Redis server.  Please start server to run 
tests.\n");
+    exit(1);
+  }
   REDIS_INFO info;
   char *val, **valv, lstr[50000];
   const char *keyv[] = {"kalle", "adam", "unknown", "bertil", "none"};

Original issue reported on code.google.com by aaron.hamid on 18 Jul 2010 at 5:01

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This issue was closed by revision r43.

Original comment by romf...@gmail.com on 21 Jul 2010 at 7:46

• Changed state: Fixed