Re: [gmime-devel] issue with g_mime_multipart_encrypted_decrypt / fsync

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj gnome org>]

On 7/22/2012 11:04 AM, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to use g_mime_multipart_encrypted_decrypt in my app[1], but
> it keeps returning NULL without 'err' being set. I'm using GMime 2.6.x
>
> I've debugged this to the function stream_flush in gmime-stream-pipe.c,
> where `fsync' returns -1, with errno set to EINVAL. This is called from
> gmime-gpg-context.c, around line 1194:
>        if (g_mime_stream_flush (passwd) == -1)
>
> Maybe fsync on a pipe is not allowed?

Hmmm, this is possible. I'll look into it. Is this on Linux? Or some 
other system?

> In any case, once I commented out the fsync, things started working.
>
> While debugging this, I found something else, which is probably not
> related, but may be worthwhile to :
>
> In http://git.gnome.org/browse/gmime/tree/gmime/gmime-gpg-context.c#n388,
> there's a check for UTF8, using string "UTF-8". However, on my
> (Debian/sid) system, the locale is "utf8", and thus gmime doesn't
> recognize to fix. So, maybe the check should include that as well?

I've fixed this in git, but it shouldn't have caused any issues (it'd 
just open a charset converter for UTF-8 to UTF-8 and so might have done 
some extra processing, but it should have been extremely cheap).

Jeff