Re: cat /proc/registry/HKEY_PERFOMANCE_DATA/@ hangs

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> 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

Yes, but the world is not perfect, and if we move this thread to
cygwin-developers now, we'll lose thread continuity.  I'll do it if you
insist, though.  I'm about to reply to Dave, so please let me know.  :-)
	Igor
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