[Libguestfs] [PATCH] hivex: Add O_BINARY flag to open calls for platforms where this isn't the default (such as Win32)
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Fri Jun 28 07:39:44 UTC 2013
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:29:28PM +0200, Daniel Gillen wrote:
> Hi
>
> As my cross platform registry editor (FRED available from
> https://www.pinguin.lu (sorry for advertising but I couldn't resist
> ;-))) is evolving, I recently added write support to it.
>
> While under Linux everything worked nice, the Windblows build didn't.
>
> It seems that Windows opens files by default in text mode (O_TEXT) which
> is a problem. The attached patch adds the O_BINARY flag to all open
> calls which solves the issue and allows libhivex to alter hives in Windows.
>
> I don't think this will harm on any other platform, so no fancy ifdefs
> this time :)
>
> ok?
>
> cu
>
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> >From 726feff722dbaee93064ffc603d9979c26399928 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Gillen Daniel <gillen.daniel at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 23:08:15 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] hivex: Add O_BINARY flag to open calls for platforms where
> this isn't the default (such as Win32)
>
> ---
> lib/hivex.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/hivex.c b/lib/hivex.c
> index 040b1e7..86e5959 100644
> --- a/lib/hivex.c
> +++ b/lib/hivex.c
> @@ -265,9 +265,9 @@ hivex_open (const char *filename, int flags)
> goto error;
>
> #ifdef O_CLOEXEC
> - h->fd = open (filename, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
> + h->fd = open (filename, O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC | O_BINARY);
> #else
> - h->fd = open (filename, O_RDONLY);
> + h->fd = open (filename, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY);
> #endif
> if (h->fd == -1)
> goto error;
> @@ -2261,7 +2261,7 @@ hivex_commit (hive_h *h, const char *filename, int flags)
> }
>
> filename = filename ? : h->filename;
> - int fd = open (filename, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_NOCTTY, 0666);
> + int fd = open (filename, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_NOCTTY|O_BINARY, 0666);
> if (fd == -1)
> return -1;
Thanks - I've pushed this.
I don't know *how* it works on Linux. I can't find O_BINARY in any
header at all ...
Rich.
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