[ros-dev] reactos.inf

[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 at 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 at yahoo.de<mailto:
>> snaumann2912 at 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
>>
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