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Re: setup-2.243 Crash / Install from Local Directory / WinXP


On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 04:32:13PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>Wednesday, May 22, 2002, 2:34:47 PM, you wrote:
>
>PT> I can confirm this - here is the output shown from Dr. Mingw JIT:
>
>I'm not sure this is the same crash but the crash I'm reporting is
>easy reproducable and I think it is not the expected behaviour :)
>Here is more info on it..
>
>The crash is caused by this code from IniParseFindVisitor.cc, line 62:
>
>  /* Copy leading part of path to temporary buffer and unescape it */
>
>  String prefix (&basePath.cstr_oneuse()[baseLength + 1]);
>  String mirror = rfc1738_unescape_part (prefix.substr(0,prefix.size() - 1));
>
>  baseLenght - the length of the fullpath to the local package dir
>  basePath - the full path of a directory we are currently scanning
>             with FindFirstFile and friends.
>
>When scannin the local package directory itself prefix would be with
>zero length. Now prefix.size() will result in 0 thus this call
>prefix.substr(0,prefix.size() - 1) will look like this
>prefix.substr(0, -1) i.e. give me the whole string. Ok fine...
>Now take a look at String::substr:

Heh.  Sounds very similar to the problem that I fixed in the branch.

cgf

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