WriteFile() segfaults...

[Tom Watson]

Thanks, I should read the doc's a little harder...

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:16 PM, Zebediah Figura <z.figura12 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 05/03/18 12:53, Tom Watson wrote:
> >
> > Over the weekend I seem to have triggered a number of segfaults while
> > writing tests by sending 0 as the optional bytes written parameter;
> >
> >    WriteFile(handle, buffer, sizeof(buffer), 0, NULL);
> >
> > Test patch/runs on testbot
> > here: https://testbot.winehq.org/JobDetails.pl?Key=36430
> >
> > I download the resulting .exe and ran it against current git source
> > locally and it works fine.
> >
> > Is this a known issue? Something going on with testbot? Something I'm
> > doing wrong? Or does it require some more investigation?
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> >
> >
>
> Hello Tom,
>
> The testbot runs each test against a Windows machine. On Windows, it's
> not allowed to pass a NULL parameter in for the number of bytes written,
> unless the overlapped parameter is used:
>
> "This parameter can be NULL only when the lpOverlapped parameter is not
> NULL."
>
> That this works on Wine is not really correct behaviour, but it's not
> worth "fixing" either.
>
> ἔρρωσο,
> Zeb
>
>
>
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