Hi
I have made few changes and this is working and seems like there are no memory problems with this code.
I am not using fileSystemRepresentation because then I will end up casting constants, so using getFileSystemRepresentation instead.
// Allocating space for the args
char **plistArgs = (char **) malloc(3 *sizeof(char*));
NSString *shell = @"/bin/sh";
char *plistScript = (char *) malloc([copyPlistScript_
lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding]);
// this gives space for Null.
[desktopCopyPlistScript_ getFileSystemRepresentation:plistScript
maxLength:[copyPlistScript_
lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding]];
char *garage = (char *) malloc([garage_
lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding]);
[garage_ getFileSystemRepresentation:garage
maxLength:[garage_
lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding]];
plistArgs[0] = plistScript;
plistArgs[1] = garage;
plistArgs[2] = NULL;
// Update the plists within all 3 Desktop components
OSStatus status =
AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges(authRef_, [shell UTF8String],
0, plistArgs, NULL);
if ((status == errAuthorizationCanceled) ||
(status != errAuthorizationSuccess)) {
NSLog(@"Desktop Break Change: Authorization failed when installing new "
@"configuration plists.");
return NO;
}
// free the allocated memory
free(plistScript);
free(garage);
free(plistArgs);
----- Original Message ----
From: Aki Inoue <email@hidden>
To: deepak gopal <email@hidden>
Cc: cocoa dev <email@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, 24 October, 2007 4:15:33 PM
Subject: Re: A problematic combination of malloc and getCharacters.
I believe AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges() is expecting NULL-
terminated, UTF-8, C-string as the args instead of non-terminated
unichar array.
You can use -UTF8String methods for that.
Since the second arg to the function is defined to be a POSIX path
representation, you should use -fileSystemRepresentation instead.
Aki
On 2007/10/24, at 15:58, deepak gopal wrote:
> Hi
>
> The method performChange would run a script which would modify a
> plist.
>
> When the control reaches line 12 I get this message "/: /: is a
> directory" in the run log and when I check in the debugger I find
> that plistScript and garage have "/" as the value. So I know where
> the problem is but dont' know what's causing it or what the solution
> is.
>
> There is no problem with the authorization or with the paths
> copyPlistScript_ (/tmp/script) or garage_ (/tmp/garage)
>
> I assume that the memory allocation in line 4 and line 6 would give
> the same result.
>
> Can someone guide me?
>
> 1 - (BOOL)performChange {
> 2 char **plistArgs = (char **) malloc(3 *sizeof(char*));
> 3 NSString *shell = @"/bin/sh";
>
> 4 char *plistScript = (char *) malloc([copyPlistScript_
> length]*sizeof(unichar));
> 5 [copyPlistScript_ getCharacters:(unichar *) plistScript];
>
> 6 char *garage = (char *) malloc([garage_
> lengthOfBytesUsingEncoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding]);
> 7 [garage_ getCharacters:(unichar *) garage];
>
> 8 plistArgs[0] = plistScript;
> 9 plistArgs[1] = garage;
> 10 plistArgs[2] = NULL;
>
> 12 OSStatus status = AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges(authRef_,
> [shell UTF8String], 0, plistArgs, NULL);
>
> 13 if ((status == errAuthorizationCanceled) || (status !=
> errAuthorizationSuccess)) {
> 14 NSLog(@"Desktop Break Change: Authorization failed when
> installing new configuration plists.");
> 15 return NO;
> 16 }
>
> 17 free(plistScript);
> 18 free(garage);
> 19 free(plistArgs);
> 20}
>
>
>
>
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