From fe79df9323a45e1100a647cf550b196714624621 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Linas Vepstas <linas@linas.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 04:19:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix error handling semantics

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/trunk@4816 57a11ea4-9604-0410-9ed3-97b8803252fd
---
 src/engine/Backend.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/engine/Backend.c b/src/engine/Backend.c
index 6edc548a89..eb1824c701 100644
--- a/src/engine/Backend.c
+++ b/src/engine/Backend.c
@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ void
 xaccBackendSetError (Backend *be, GNCBackendError err)
 {
    if (!be) return;
+
+   /* use stack-push semantics. Only the earliest error counts */
+   if (ERR_BACKEND_NO_ERR != be->last_err) return;
    be->last_err = err;
 }