Ohhh, "helpful".
FYI, I am building with Zlib.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 2:14 PM
> To: mlum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Ethereal
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Bad File Descriptor trying to open ANY file
>
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2003, at 1:48 PM, Michael Lum wrote:
>
> > I have built an ethereal.exe.
> >
> > It fails to open any file, with the popup given (attachment).
> >
> > The prebuild binary does not have a problem.
> >
> > Does anybody have any ideas ?
>
> The code path that produces the error probably goes through "cf_open()".
>
> That goes through "wtap_open_offline()", which calls "open()" - which
> should be mapped to "_open()" on Windows, courtesy of GLib - to get a
> C-library file descriptor. It then calls "filed_open()" to get a "FILE
> *"; if you're building with Zlib, that's "gzdopen()", otherwise it's
> "fdopen()" (which should be mapped to "_fdopen()" on Windows).
>
> If "wtap_open_offline()" succeeds, it calls "wtap_fd()", which should
> return the file descriptor, and does an "fstat()" on that (which might
> get mapped to "_fstat()" on Windows).
>
> It probably failed in:
>
> 1) "_open()";
>
> 2) "_fdopen()", if you're not building with ZLib;
>
> 3) "_fstat()".
>
> Those *should* presumably all work in VS.NET, as well as the VC++ 6.0
> that many of us use, but perhaps Microsoft "improved" things so that
> they don't actually work.
>
> If you're building with Zlib, perhaps there's some problem with Zlib -
> the Zlib binaries were probably built with VC++ 6.0 or earlier, but
> that should presumably work with VS.NET, but, again, perhaps Microsoft
> "improved" things.
