[Libguestfs] Hivex - Trailing garbage at the end of hive file

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Sep 25 08:59:18 UTC 2013


On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 09:31:26PM +0000, Subramanian, Hari wrote:
> Is there a reason why a previous version of hivex ignored this condition
> while more recent ones throw an error?

We don't understand all aspects of the hive format, so it's better to
warn about these things than ignore them.

> I do have some hive files that are failing (I'm yet to validate if they
> are good or were corrupted some other way). I will do so and share my
> findings

When you say "that are failing" do you mean they actually fail (and if
so how -- full verbose logs please) or they print this warning, which
is not a failure?

Rich.

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