Re: Bug: regtool does not fully display REG_MULTI_SZ values that contain a zero-length component

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Nov  3 21:55, Max Bowsher wrote:
> When printing out a a REG_MULTI_SZ, regtool stops printing at the first 
> \0\0 sequence encountered. However, if the multi-string contains a 
> zero-length element, a \0\0 sequence will be encountered before the end of 
> the data.
> 
> regtool should use the length value returned from the registry query call 
> to know when it has printed all data, not the presence of a \0\0 sequence.

I was going to point you to the drill, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC,
but I read the description of REG_MULTI_SZ keys again.  It's definitely
defined as a list of null-terminated strings, with an empty string (aka,
one single \0) terminating the list.  Applications requesting a
REG_MULTI_SZ value will not expect an empty string in the middle since
that's against the definition.  If you try to add such a REG_MULTI_SZ
value using RedEdit, you'll get an error message "Data of type
REG_MULTI_SZ cannot contain empty strings. Registry Editor will remove
the empty string found."  What's the deal to change regtool to support
that?


Corinna

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