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From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
To: "Richard W. M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Subject: chntpw [PATCH] correct test for failing "open" syscall
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:05:44 +0200
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This one is weird.
It must be code that is never exercised,
since the existing code is totally bogus.
The condition, !open(...), will almost always be true.
(sole exception is when starting a program with stdin
initially closed)

>From bc4cddb06cf13c189fbdc93e6962cad072779097 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:59:19 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] correct test for failing "open" syscall

* ntreg.c (writeHive): Test open() < 0, not !open().
---
 ntreg.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ntreg.c b/ntreg.c
index be6b680..21cd3e3 100644
--- a/ntreg.c
+++ b/ntreg.c
@@ -2765,7 +2765,7 @@ int writeHive(struct hive *hdesc)
   if ( !(hdesc->state & HMODE_DIRTY)) return(0);

   if ( !(hdesc->state & HMODE_OPEN)) { /* File has been closed */
-    if (!(hdesc->filedesc = open(hdesc->filename,O_RDWR))) {
+    if ((hdesc->filedesc = open(hdesc->filename,O_RDWR)) < 0) {
       fprintf(stderr,"writeHive: open(%s) failed: %s, FILE NOT WRITTEN!\n",hdesc->filename,strerror(errno));
       return(1);
     }
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