OLE storage SetFilePointer fix

Marcus Meissner marcus at jet.franken.de
Sat Apr 12 20:23:26 CDT 2003


On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 11:07:11PM +0200, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> the OLE storage code basically disabled itself, by doing a
> READ_HEADER;
> in STORAGE_get_pps_entry().
> This READ_HEADER uses -1 as block number for STORAGE_get_big_block()
> (in order to retrieve the storage header block).
> And if you look at the SetFilePointer() in STORAGE_get_big_block(),
> you might notice that (n+1)*BIGSIZE for some strange reason evaluates
> to 0, for n == -1.
> Thus, SetFilePointer() seeks to position 0 to read the storage header.
> 
> And now I'm terribly sorry to tell you that STORAGE_get_big_block()
> did a
>     if (!SetFilePointer( hf, (n+1)*BIGSIZE, NULL, SEEK_SET ))
>     {
>         WARN(" seek failed (%ld)\n",GetLastError());
>         return FALSE;
>     }
> 
> Sounds like SetFilePointer() is *supposed* to return 0 if it seeks to
> position 0, eh?
> 
> In other words:
> - fix blatantly wrong SetFilePointer() calls

The 16bit storage code is probably not safe to work with, for instance
saving is probably not working.

It should call forward to the 32bit storage code, which I think
is more correct.
 
Ciao, Marcus



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