reactos.inf

[Stefan Naumann]

Hello.

I am the guy writing an updater for ReactOS. Recent tests show some 
difficulties and errors in data from reactos bootcds; mainly reactos.inf:

My program reads reactos.inf, puts the filepaths together and copies 
files to the specified positions in folder-tree (I'm talking about the 
server's side). It seems that reactos.inf contains pretty weird data; 
opening reactos.inf with gedit shows it intact; reading it with the 
program gets the following things out (shortened):

" -- 6 -->cache/files/���
"

should be "cache/files/inf" (with cache/files" beeing the path of all 
cached files, unpacked from bootcd-ISO.

and (in the same context):

"
-- 5 = system32\drivers\etc
-- 6 = inf
-- 7 = bin
-- �Í = bin\data
-- 9 = media
-- 10 = Microsoft.NET
"

("--" comes from debug-function of my iniparser).

Is this intended to be as is or not? Could someone please fix that or 
let me know whether I should think about doing something differently. 
I'm working and testing with Xubuntu 13.04 amd64 - always getting latest 
dbg-BootCD-ISO.

Thanks peope.

Regards Stefan Naumann

[Zachary Gorden]

Sounds like you're trying to print out unicode characters as ascii.


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Stefan Naumann <snaumann2912(a)yahoo.de>wrote;wrote:

>   Hello.
>
>  I am the guy writing an updater for ReactOS. Recent tests show some
>  difficulties and errors in data from reactos bootcds; mainly reactos.inf:
>
>  My program reads reactos.inf, puts the filepaths together and copies files
>  to the specified positions in folder-tree (I'm talking about the server's
>  side). It seems that reactos.inf contains pretty weird data; opening
>  reactos.inf with gedit shows it intact; reading it with the program gets
>  the following things out (shortened):
>
>  " -- 6 -->cache/files/��� "
>
>  should be "cache/files/inf" (with cache/files" beeing the path of all
>  cached files, unpacked from bootcd-ISO.
>
>  and (in the same context):
>
>  "
>  -- 5 = system32\drivers\etc
>  -- 6 = inf
>  -- 7 = bin
>  -- �Í = bin\data
>  -- 9 = media
>  -- 10 = Microsoft.NET
>  "
>
>  ("--" comes from debug-function of my iniparser).
>
>  Is this intended to be as is or not? Could someone please fix that or let
>  me know whether I should think about doing something differently. I'm
>  working and testing with Xubuntu 13.04 amd64 - always getting latest
>  dbg-BootCD-ISO.
>
>  Thanks peope.
>
>  Regards Stefan Naumann
>
>  ______________________________**_________________
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>
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[Stefan Naumann]

Why does someone save an single "8" as unicode in reactos.inf-File? 
Sound broken to me. I'm on it, might be my iniparser as well, but it's 
pretty strange that only the 8 = bin\cache is effected. the 6 = inf 
might not be broken at all. This is not the cause for my program 
crashing - repeatedly.

Am 02.05.2013 19:01, schrieb Zachary Gorden:
>   Sounds like you're trying to print out unicode
> characters as ascii.
>
>
>  On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Stefan Naumann <snaumann2912(a)yahoo.de 
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>      Hello.
>
>      I am the guy writing an updater for ReactOS. Recent tests show
>      some difficulties and errors in data from reactos bootcds; mainly
>      reactos.inf:
>
>      My program reads reactos.inf, puts the filepaths together and
>      copies files to the specified positions in folder-tree (I'm
>      talking about the server's side). It seems that reactos.inf
>      contains pretty weird data; opening reactos.inf with gedit shows
>      it intact; reading it with the program gets the following things
>      out (shortened):
>
>      " -- 6 -->cache/files/��� "
>
>      should be "cache/files/inf" (with cache/files" beeing the path of
>      all cached files, unpacked from bootcd-ISO.
>
>      and (in the same context):
>
>      "
>      -- 5 = system32\drivers\etc
>      -- 6 = inf
>      -- 7 = bin
>      -- �Í = bin\data
>      -- 9 = media
>      -- 10 = Microsoft.NET
>      "
>
>      ("--" comes from debug-function of my iniparser).
>
>      Is this intended to be as is or not? Could someone please fix that
>      or let me know whether I should think about doing something
>      differently. I'm working and testing with Xubuntu 13.04 amd64 -
>      always getting latest dbg-BootCD-ISO.
>
>      Thanks peope.
>
>      Regards Stefan Naumann
>
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>
>
>
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[Zachary Gorden]

Thomas (for some reason is still not sending his response even though he
came up with the idea) thinks that it's a null termination problem,
whereing you're expecting readfile to null terminate data.


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Stefan Naumann <snaumann2912(a)yahoo.de>wrote;wrote:

>   Why does someone save an single "8" as
> unicode in reactos.inf-File? Sound
>  broken to me. I'm on it, might be my iniparser as well, but it's pretty
>  strange that only the 8 = bin\cache is effected. the 6 = inf might not be
>  broken at all. This is not the cause for my program crashing - repeatedly.
>
>  Am 02.05.2013 19:01, schrieb Zachary Gorden:
>
> >   Sounds like you're trying to print out
> > unicode characters as ascii.
> >
> >
> >  On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Stefan Naumann <snaumann2912(a)yahoo.de<mailtomailto:
> >  snaumann2912(a)yahoo.de>**> wrote:
> >
> >      Hello.
> >
> >      I am the guy writing an updater for ReactOS. Recent tests show
> >      some difficulties and errors in data from reactos bootcds; mainly
> >      reactos.inf:
> >
> >      My program reads reactos.inf, puts the filepaths together and
> >      copies files to the specified positions in folder-tree (I'm
> >      talking about the server's side). It seems that reactos.inf
> >      contains pretty weird data; opening reactos.inf with gedit shows
> >      it intact; reading it with the program gets the following things
> >      out (shortened):
> >
> >      " -- 6 -->cache/files/��� "
> >
> >      should be "cache/files/inf" (with cache/files" beeing the path of
> >      all cached files, unpacked from bootcd-ISO.
> >
> >      and (in the same context):
> >
> >      "
> >      -- 5 = system32\drivers\etc
> >      -- 6 = inf
> >      -- 7 = bin
> >      -- �Í = bin\data
> >      -- 9 = media
> >      -- 10 = Microsoft.NET
> >      "
> >
> >      ("--" comes from debug-function of my iniparser).
> >
> >      Is this intended to be as is or not? Could someone please fix that
> >      or let me know whether I should think about doing something
> >      differently. I'm working and testing with Xubuntu 13.04 amd64 -
> >      always getting latest dbg-BootCD-ISO.
> >
> >      Thanks peope.
> >
> >      Regards Stefan Naumann
> >
> >      ______________________________**_________________
> >      Ros-dev mailing list
> >      Ros-dev(a)reactos.org <mailto:[e-mail]>
> >     
> > http://www.reactos.org/**mailman/listinfo/ros-dev<http://www.reactos.org…
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >  
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[Stefan Naumann]

Indeed, it was an error at my side. I guess something with malloc'ing
and free'ing memory too often ... or not as much as it should...
something like that.

Regards

Am 02.05.2013 20:40, schrieb Zachary Gorden:
>   Thomas (for some reason is still not sending his
> response even though
>  he came up with the idea) thinks that it's a null termination problem,
>  whereing you're expecting readfile to null terminate data.
>
>
>  On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Stefan Naumann <snaumann2912(a)yahoo.de
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>      Why does someone save an single "8" as unicode in
>      reactos.inf-File? Sound broken to me. I'm on it, might be my
>      iniparser as well, but it's pretty strange that only the 8 =
>      bin\cache is effected. the 6 = inf might not be broken at all.
>      This is not the cause for my program crashing - repeatedly.
>
>      Am 02.05.2013 19:01, schrieb Zachary Gorden:
>
>          Sounds like you're trying to print out unicode characters as
>          ascii.
>
>
>          On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Stefan Naumann
>          &lt;snaumann2912(a)yahoo.de <mailto:[e-mail]>
>          <mailto:[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>>>
>          wrote:
>
>              Hello.
>
>              I am the guy writing an updater for ReactOS. Recent tests show
>              some difficulties and errors in data from reactos bootcds;
>          mainly
>              reactos.inf:
>
>              My program reads reactos.inf, puts the filepaths together and
>              copies files to the specified positions in folder-tree (I'm
>              talking about the server's side). It seems that reactos.inf
>              contains pretty weird data; opening reactos.inf with gedit
>          shows
>              it intact; reading it with the program gets the following
>          things
>              out (shortened):
>
>              " -- 6 -->cache/files/??? "
>
>              should be "cache/files/inf" (with cache/files" beeing the
>          path of
>              all cached files, unpacked from bootcd-ISO.
>
>              and (in the same context):
>
>              "
>              -- 5 = system32\drivers\etc
>              -- 6 = inf
>              -- 7 = bin
>              -- ?Í = bin\data
>              -- 9 = media
>              -- 10 = Microsoft.NET
>              "
>
>              ("--" comes from debug-function of my iniparser).
>
>              Is this intended to be as is or not? Could someone please
>          fix that
>              or let me know whether I should think about doing something
>              differently. I'm working and testing with Xubuntu 13.04
>          amd64 -
>              always getting latest dbg-BootCD-ISO.
>
>              Thanks peope.
>
>              Regards Stefan Naumann
>
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>
>
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