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    as a follow-up cleanup I suggest to introduce an enum to hold this magic 
value


- Milian Wolff


On April 28, 2016, 7:01 a.m., Jos van den Oever wrote:
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> (Updated April 28, 2016, 7:01 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and David Faure.
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> Repository: kservice
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> Description
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> The code for reading and writing of strings in KSycoca is not symmetrical. 
> Strings of any length can be written, but only strings of less than 8192 
> bytes may be read. This limit is set in KSycocaUtilsPrivate::read. The limit 
> is probably there to avoid out-of-memory situations.
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> On my system I have a lot of XDG data dirs. The length of the environment 
> variable is currently 4092 bytes. KSycocaBuild saves that as UTF-16 which 
> needs 8184 bytes. KBuildSycoca save that without complaint but complains when 
> reading it.
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> The simplest solution here is to simply increase the magic number 8192 to 
> e.g. 65528. This is just a temporary buffer.
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> Or we just check the size of the whole cache file (e.g. < 100M) and remove 
> all other limits. That would simplify
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>    KSycocaUtilsPrivate::read(*str, header.prefixes);
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>    *str >> header.prefixes;
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> This patch chooses the first option.
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> Diffs
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>   src/sycoca/ksycocautils.cpp 1ba75e8 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127770/diff/
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> Testing
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> Ran unit tests on KService. All but one of the previously failing tests on 
> NixOS is now fixed.
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> Thanks,
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> Jos van den Oever
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