Ticket #1232: workaround-windows-writeconsole-suckage.darcs.patch

1 patch for repository davidsarah@dev.allmydata.org:/home/darcs/tahoe/trunk:

Wed Oct 27 03:16:36 GMT Daylight Time 2010  david-sarah@jacaranda.org
  * windows/fixups.py: limit length of string passed in a single call to WriteConsoleW. fixes #1232.

New patches:

[windows/fixups.py: limit length of string passed in a single call to WriteConsoleW. fixes #1232.
david-sarah@jacaranda.org**20101027021636
 Ignore-this: fbd99e0d22493974696d37925d97c7d6
] hunk ./src/allmydata/windows/fixups.py 132
                             remaining = len(text)
                             while remaining > 0:
                                 n = DWORD(0)
-                                retval = WriteConsoleW(self._hConsole, text, remaining, byref(n), None)
+                                # There is a shorter-than-documented limitation on the length of the string
+                                # passed to WriteConsoleW (see #1232).
+                                retval = WriteConsoleW(self._hConsole, text, min(remaining, 10000), byref(n), None)
                                 if retval == 0 or n.value == 0:
                                     raise IOError("WriteConsoleW returned %r, n.value = %r" % (retval, n.value))
                                 remaining -= n.value

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[TAG allmydata-tahoe-1.8.0
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