On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 15:21:42 +0200 Cedric BAIL <[email protected]> said:

> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 09:16:39 +0200 [email protected] said:
> >> I don't get it. Isn't eet supposed to detect corrupt files? I guess it is
> >> something inside efreet, tried to find it but didn't see anything weird.
> >
> > well only as corrupt as eet will fail finding stuff in the header. rememebr
> > eet files generally are:
> >
> > [header]
> > [key hash/list + data offset per key]
> > [data1]
> > [data2]
> > [data3]
> > ...
> >
> > so it could happily write half of data3 - but then loading data3 key at ALL
> > will fail. shared string dict also complicates that a bit as string dict is
> > mmaped.
> 
> eet does check string correctness (starting and ending position inside
> the mmaped data and terminated by a \0). It also check that each data
> are inside the mmaped area. So it would refuse to load a file that is
> corrupted at all. If not I consider this a bug.

it SHOULD... but DOES it.. we need the bad file to test with...

maybe we should just create a stress test for eet
make random files
ie random data
then work our way from a big or small eet file and randomly write bytes in it
until eet "complains" (ie gracefully fails) as long as it doesnt segv
:)


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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    [email protected]


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