On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Tor Lillqvist <tlillqv...@novell.com> wrote:
>> So the problem must be in setup.exe, in some cases it fails to understand
>> that it should use a transform. That is good, because it means we can debug
>> it.
>
> Which I did. Which was fun. Or at least entertaining. The code in
> libs-core/desktop/win32/source/setup/setup.cpp is, what shall I say,
> amusing. It probably is based on code from Windows 3.1 era.
>
> The problem was in the SetupAppX::GetProfileSection() method. This method
> loads one of the sections in the setup.ini file in the installer directory.
> It does some "clever" buffer management, initially allocating a relatively
> small buffer, and then growing it if the requested section doesn't fit. (With
> our multi-language installer, the [languages] section is quite large.)
>
> To actually read the section, the Win32 function GetPrivateProfileSection()
> is used. Unfortunately the author of the code didn't read the documentation
> for that function's return value carefully enough. It says "If the buffer is
> not large enough to contain all the key name and value pairs associated with
> the named section, the return value is equal to nSize minus two". Alas, the
> code was written as if the return value would be the required size, if the
> passed buffer size was not big enough. (Which, sure, would be a saner API,
> and match many other Win32 APIs.)
>
> The first bug was in the test whether the return value indicated a too small
> buffer. The test never was true.
>
> But if that was fixed, it didn't help, because the code that attempted to
> retry with a bigger buffer, instead of (for instance) multiplying the buffer
> size by two, because of the same misunderstanding, didn't increase it at all.
> Even if it would have increased it, with a fixed amount or multiplier, to be
> really really correct, surely it should loop, not increase it just once and
> retry.
>
> So, the attached patch seems to fix the problem. The initial buffer size is
> now 10000 which de facto is big enough for us, but just in case, I kept the
> resizing (now as a loop) and in that the size is limited for sanity to a
> million characters or so. Should be enough. (And yes, I did verify that the
> looping resizing code works by temporarily using a much smaller initial
> buffer size.)
>
> The symptom of the bug was that only the first 20 or so languages in the
> setup.ini file were recognized. German happens to be among those, which
> explains why it worked for Thalion72. Hungarian, Swedish and Portuguese
> (Brazil) are not, so they didn't work. In a test build with just a few
> languages, they all worked...
>
> Please review the patch. Three approvals are needed to get this into the 3.3
> installer.
why a:
f(x)
while()
{
f(x)
}
instead fo a
do
{
f(x)
}
while()
?
Norbert
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