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

[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb bulk gmail com>]

On 2012-08-05 20:59, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

 > On 7/22/2012 11:04 AM, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema wrote:

 > > 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?

Yeah, on Linux, debian/sid, kernel 3.2.0 and glibc 2.13.
Anyway, this is handled in your other reply already.

 > > While debugging this, I found something else, which is probably not
 > > related, but may be worthwhile to fix:
 > >
 > > 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 it. 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).

Ah, that's good to hear -- thanks.

Best wishes,
Dirk.

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