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
Sounds like you're trying to print out unicode characters as ascii.
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Stefan Naumann snaumann2912@yahoo.dewrote:
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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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@yahoo.de mailto:snaumann2912@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@reactos.org <mailto:Ros-dev@reactos.org> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
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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@yahoo.dewrote:
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@yahoo.demailto: snaumann2912@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@reactos.org <mailto:Ros-dev@reactos.org> http://www.reactos.org/**mailman/listinfo/ros-dev<http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev>______________________________**_________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org http://www.reactos.org/**mailman/listinfo/ros-devhttp://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
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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@yahoo.de mailto:snaumann2912@yahoo.de> 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@yahoo.de <mailto:snaumann2912@yahoo.de> <mailto:snaumann2912@yahoo.de <mailto:snaumann2912@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@reactos.org <mailto:Ros-dev@reactos.org> <mailto:Ros-dev@reactos.org <mailto:Ros-dev@reactos.org>> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org <mailto:Ros-dev@reactos.org> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev _______________________________________________ Ros-dev mailing list Ros-dev@reactos.org <mailto:Ros-dev@reactos.org> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
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