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Re: "regtool -m set" writes 2 extra bytes at the end


Den 2010-10-31 02:42 skrev Christopher Faylor:
> [Apologies for previously sending this as private email.  Don't know how
> that happened]
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 03:37:31AM +0300, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The easiest way to demonstrate the problem is to run the following shell
>> script:
>>
>> ---- >8 ---
>> regtool -m set /HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Test 1234
>> expected="31 00 32 00 33 00 34 00 00 00 00 00"
>> actual="`regtool get -b /HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Test`"
>>
>> if [ "$actual" != "$expected" ]; then
>> 	echo FAILED
>> else
>> 	echo OK
>> fi
>> ---- >8 ---
> 
> I've checked this in but isn't there one too many trailing "00 00"s in
> the above, i.e., shouldn't it be "n" rather than "n + 1"?

One terminator for the string, and one for the multi-string.  I have
double terminators for natively created multi-strings.

Cheers,
Peter


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