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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-15 03:35:49 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-15 03:35:49 +0000
commitd8bbc7858622b6d9c278469aab701ca0b609cddf (patch)
treeeff41dc61d9f714852212739e6b3738b82a2af87 /third_party/rust/scroll/src/pwrite.rs
parentReleasing progress-linux version 125.0.3-1~progress7.99u1. (diff)
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Merging upstream version 126.0.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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-rw-r--r--third_party/rust/scroll/src/pwrite.rs9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/third_party/rust/scroll/src/pwrite.rs b/third_party/rust/scroll/src/pwrite.rs
index ab6d96157d..7a07f2daba 100644
--- a/third_party/rust/scroll/src/pwrite.rs
+++ b/third_party/rust/scroll/src/pwrite.rs
@@ -19,6 +19,13 @@ use crate::error;
/// with 'read' switched for 'write' and 'From' switched with 'Into' so if you haven't yet you
/// should read the documentation of `Pread` first.
///
+/// As with `Pread`, note that in the particular case of the implementation of `Pwrite` for `[u8]`,
+/// writing it at the length boundary of that slice will cause to write in an empty slice.
+/// i.e. we make use of the fact that `&bytes[bytes.len()..]` will return an empty slice, rather
+/// than returning an error. In the past, scroll returned an offset error.
+/// In this case, this is relevant if you are writing an empty slice inside an empty slice and
+/// expected this to work.
+///
/// Unless you need to implement your own data store — that is either can't convert to `&[u8]` or
/// have a data that does not expose a `&mut [u8]` — you will probably want to implement
/// [TryIntoCtx](ctx/trait.TryIntoCtx.html) on your Rust types to be written.
@@ -87,7 +94,7 @@ impl<Ctx: Copy, E: From<error::Error>> Pwrite<Ctx, E> for [u8] {
offset: usize,
ctx: Ctx,
) -> result::Result<usize, E> {
- if offset >= self.len() {
+ if offset > self.len() {
return Err(error::Error::BadOffset(offset).into());
}
let dst = &mut self[offset..];