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Re: SOLVED!: Problem: error in iconv_open

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Il giorno Sat, 9 Jul 2011 10:37:09 UTC, "Mentore Siesto" 
<mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> ha scritto:

> Il giorno Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:56:32 UTC, Ilya Zakharevich 
> <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> ha scritto:
> 
> > On 2011-06-19, Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Probably good enough unless your communicating nuclear secrets are some 
> > > such. There's way more low hanging fruit then cracking the OS/2 random 
> > > number generator to predict it.
> > 
> > ???  Did you have your coffee?  There is no "OS/2 random 
> >  number generator"; it is CRTL's random number generator.  There are
> >  about 3 or 4 of them.  There is no need to "crack them"; unless
> >  seed()ed from urandom, they would return a fully predictable sequence
> >  of numbers (provided the seeding happens from course-granularity
> >  time, and PID).
> > 
> > Ilya
> 
> News from past days...
> 
> I tried with rand () and it seemed to work fine, but now the program 
> seems to corrupt files!
> 
> Testing on a simple text file worked fine, but as I try it with a 
> binary file, my port corrupts it adding spare bytes.
> 
> It could be the way I'm using the random generator... I will make some
> other try. Will keep you informed!
> 
> Mentore

It was not the random number generator. I built another release using 
another generator, which uses a specific algorithm, and noticed the 
very same problem. So I checked out the fopen () calls, as the program
worked fine with text file, and guess what?

Yes, the original source opens files without the "binary" flag. adding
"b" to all the fopen () calls solved the problem.

Now it's just time to clean up a bit and a new OS/2 program is ready 
:)

Mentore

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  Re: Problem: error in iconv_open Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-06-05 15:16 -0700
  Re: Problem: error in iconv_open KO Myung-Hun <komh@chollian.net> - 2011-06-06 22:50 +0900
    Re: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-06-06 20:40 +0000
    Re: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-06-06 20:45 +0000
      Re: Problem: error in iconv_open Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-06-06 16:41 -0700
        Re: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-06-19 16:40 +0000
          Re: Problem: error in iconv_open Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-06-19 11:30 -0700
            Re: Problem: error in iconv_open Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-06-22 21:56 +0000
              Re: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-07-09 10:37 +0000
                Re: SOLVED!: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-07-10 18:24 +0000
                Re: SOLVED!: Problem: error in iconv_open "Lars Erdmann" <lars.erdmann@arcor.de> - 2011-07-10 20:41 +0200
                Re: SOLVED!: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-07-10 22:33 +0000
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                Re: SOLVED!: Problem: error in iconv_open Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2011-07-10 12:07 -0700
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        Re: Problem: error in iconv_open "Mentore Siesto" <mentoreshoryu@fattimiei.zx> - 2011-06-08 20:49 +0000
        Re: Problem: error in iconv_open piesse <piesse@despammed.com> - 2011-06-09 22:28 +0200
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