MinGW+Wine and "DBG: rndw32: get performance data problem: ec=2"
Simon Josefsson
simon at josefsson.org
Wed Jan 16 21:26:16 CET 2008
Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> writes:
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:25, simon at josefsson.org said:
>
>> Libgcrypt can't know that the syscall will fail, but is there any reason
>> to believe that if the first of the 10 calls returns FILE_NOT_FOUND,
>> that another call to the same function with the same parameters will
>> succeed? Possibly the code should just abort the loop in this
>> situation.
>
> Frankly, I don't know. The code is by Peter Gutmann and I would need to
> do some research why it fails.
I suspect Wine doesn't emulate this part of Windows.
>> In any case, other calls to log_debug in that file are protected behind
>> a 'if (debug_me)' so I would suggest the patch below as a first step.
>
> Well, the reason for always printing it is so that you could send this
> complaint ;-).
>
> What about printing the warning only once per process?
Works for me. How about this patch?
/Simon
Index: rndw32.c
===================================================================
--- rndw32.c (revision 1280)
+++ rndw32.c (working copy)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* rndw32.c - W32 entropy gatherer
- * Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
* Copyright Peter Gutmann, Matt Thomlinson and Blake Coverett 1996-2006
*
* This file is part of Libgcrypt.
@@ -440,8 +440,11 @@
}
else
{
- log_debug ("rndw32: get performance data problem: ec=%ld\n",
- status);
+ static int been_here = 1;
+ if (been_here)
+ log_debug ("rndw32: get performance data problem: ec=%ld\n",
+ status);
+ been_here = 0;
break;
}
}
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