Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:15:03 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs Message-ID: <20040714171503.GX1389@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jul 14 17:58, Dave Korn wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > > Sent: 14 July 2004 04:22 > > > Ok, the theory washed out. The code above is actually simply > > buggy. When > > RegQueryValueEx is called (2 lines below the arrow), the > > "size" parameter > > is uninitialized, so, in effect, it keeps thinking that the buffer has > > some random size and reallocating (which, of course, doesn't > > change the > > size, hence the infinite loop). > > I concur; that is bad code. The variable unambiguously needs > initialising, and since RegQueryValueEx damages it, it needs to be re-set > each time round the loop. > [...] I'm wondering if that isn't mildly OT here. Shouldn't that be discussed on cygwin-developers in a perfect world? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/