X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fwimboot.c;h=2b6a2415181ec7c7d1b90d34798eecb6bf1038bc;hb=567fe53d9dfe5b65f4f9b73f64063203c4ace293;hp=6006bbe7f50c13b145dd732f5718ac2ad1c59593;hpb=91804b01cc572458bacc1419e5f7b71422f733c7;p=wimlib

diff --git a/src/wimboot.c b/src/wimboot.c
index 6006bbe7..2b6a2415 100644
--- a/src/wimboot.c
+++ b/src/wimboot.c
@@ -34,12 +34,13 @@
 #endif
 
 #include "wimlib/win32_common.h"
-#include "wimlib/win32.h"
+
 #include "wimlib/assert.h"
 #include "wimlib/error.h"
 #include "wimlib/lookup_table.h"
 #include "wimlib/util.h"
 #include "wimlib/wimboot.h"
+#include "wimlib/win32.h"
 #include "wimlib/wof.h"
 
 static HANDLE
@@ -1084,12 +1085,15 @@ wimboot_set_pointer(HANDLE h,
 	if (wof_running) {
 		/* The WOF driver is running.  We can create the reparse point
 		 * using FSCTL_SET_EXTERNAL_BACKING.  */
-
+		unsigned int max_retries = 4;
 		struct {
 			struct wof_external_info wof_info;
 			struct wim_provider_external_info wim_info;
 		} in;
 
+	retry:
+		memset(&in, 0, sizeof(in));
+
 		in.wof_info.version = WOF_CURRENT_VERSION;
 		in.wof_info.provider = WOF_PROVIDER_WIM;
 
@@ -1103,7 +1107,22 @@ wimboot_set_pointer(HANDLE h,
 		if (!DeviceIoControl(h, FSCTL_SET_EXTERNAL_BACKING,
 				     &in, sizeof(in), NULL, 0,
 				     &bytes_returned, NULL))
+		{
+			/* Try to track down sporadic errors  */
+			if (wimlib_print_errors) {
+				WARNING("FSCTL_SET_EXTERNAL_BACKING failed (err=%u); data was %zu bytes:",
+					(u32)GetLastError(), sizeof(in));
+				print_byte_field((const u8 *)&in, sizeof(in), wimlib_error_file);
+				putc('\n', wimlib_error_file);
+			}
+			if (--max_retries) {
+				WARNING("Retrying after 100ms...");
+				Sleep(100);
+				goto retry;
+			}
+			WARNING("Too many retries; returning failure");
 			return false;
+		}
 	} else {
 
 		/* The WOF driver is running.  We need to create the reparse