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Andy Parker

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More options Oct 15 2012, 3:33 pm

From: Andy Parker <a...@puppetlabs.com>

Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:33:26 -0700

Local: Mon, Oct 15 2012 3:33 pm

Subject: Re: [Puppet-dev] Puppet 3.0 - Windows - Char Encoding Path Problem

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Looks like this has hit a bug in ruby itself. I've reported it as
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/7168

There might be a workaround that we can do where we force all of the
encodings before we hand over to File.join, but this will probably end
up being a problem in other places as well.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Edward Sumerfield

<esume...@bitbashers.org> wrote:
> : irb
> irb(main):001:0> require 'win32/dir'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> Dir::COMMON_APPDATA
> => "C:\\ProgramData"
> irb(main):003:0> Dir::COMMON_APPDATA.encoding
> => #<Encoding:UTF-16LE>
> irb(main):004:0> Dir::COMMON_APPDATA.bytes.to_a
> => [67, 0, 58, 0, 92, 0, 80, 0, 114, 0, 111, 0, 103, 0, 114, 0, 97, 0, 109,
> 0, 68, 0, 97, 0, 116, 0, 97, 0]

> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Andy Parker <a...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:

>> Hi Edward,

>> what is the output in irb of:

>> require 'win32/dir'
>> Dir::COMMON_APPDATA.encoding
>> Dir::COMMON_APPDATA.bytes.to_a

>> I'm interested where this null byte is in that innocuous looking string.

>> On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Edward Sumerfield
>> <esume...@bitbashers.org> wrote:
>> > The problem starts with requiring rspec-puppet but ends up in the puppet
>> > 3.0
>> > run_mode trying to determine Windows APPDATA pathing. The
>> > Dir::COMMON_APPDATA constant from win32-dir appears to be unicode which
>> > blows on the File.join call in run_mode line 67

>> > : irb
>> > irb(main):001:0> require "rspec-puppet"
>> > Failed to load feature test for root: uninitialized constant
>> > Windows::Synchronize
>> > ArgumentError: string contains null byte
>> > from

>> > C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet/util/run_mode.r b:67:in
>> > `join'
>> > from

>> > C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet/util/run_mode.r b:67:in
>> > `conf_dir'
>> > from

>> > C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet/settings.rb:495 :in
>> > `user_config_file'
>> > from

>> > C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet/settings.rb:123 4:in
>> > `which_configuration_file'
>> > from

>> > C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet/settings.rb:475 :in
>> > `parse_config_files'
>> > from

>> > C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet/settings.rb:147 :in
>> > `initialize_global_settings'

>> > from
>> > C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet.rb:135:in
>> > `do_initialize_settings_for_run_mode'

>> > from
>> > C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/puppet-3.0.0/lib/puppet.rb:123:in
>> > `initialize_settings'
>> > from

>> > C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/rspec-puppet-0.1.5/lib/rspec-puppet.rb: 10:in
>> > `<top (required)>'
>> > from
>> > C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:60:in
>> > `require'
>> > from
>> > C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:60:in
>> > `rescue
>> > in require'
>> > from
>> > C:/ruby193/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:35:in
>> > `require'
>> > from (irb):1
>> > from C:/ruby193/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'

>> > Reproducing the specific line in question in irb like this:

>> > : irb
>> > irb(main):002:0> require 'win32/dir'
>> > => true
>> > irb(main):003:0> Dir::COMMON_APPDATA
>> > => "C:\\ProgramData"
>> > irb(main):006:0> File.join [Dir::COMMON_APPDATA, "PuppetLabs", "puppet",
>> > "etc"]
>> > ArgumentError: string contains null byte
>> > from (irb):6:in `join'
>> > from (irb):6
>> > from C:/ruby193/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'

>> > Installed versions:

>> > : ruby -v
>> > ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20) [i386-mingw32]

>> > : gem list
>> > *** LOCAL GEMS ***
>> > ...
>> > facter (1.6.13, 1.6.12)
>> > puppet (3.0.0, 2.7.19)
>> > puppetlabs_spec_helper (0.3.0)
>> > rspec (2.11.0, 2.10.0)
>> > rspec-puppet (0.1.5, 0.1.4)
>> > sys-admin (1.5.6 x86-mingw32)
>> > win32-api (1.4.8 x86-mingw32)
>> > win32-dir (0.4.1)
>> > win32-process (0.7.0)
>> > win32-security (0.1.4, 0.1.3)
>> > win32-service (0.7.2 x86-mingw32)
>> > win32-taskscheduler (0.2.2)
>> > windows-api (0.4.2)
>> > windows-pr (1.2.2)

>> > Thanks

>> > Ed Sumerfield

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