o Re: sequence of octets bug in Orbit when running server as root?t

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Claude,

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 10:50, Claude Beazley wrote:
> I'm trying to run a local corba server as root.

	That's intrinsically quite a risky thing to do you know ? :-)
especially so in older ORB versions than ~2.4.2

> The server works fine in  accepting ints, strings,sequences of strings
> and other variables  from the client, however it falls apart when
> trying to accept a sequence of octets:-

	Most odd;

> The server never enters testoctetsequenceupload but 
> prints out the glib warning:- 
> ** (process:28210): WARNING **: Hyper unusual code path of little testing

	Ok - so that code isn't there anymore; upgrade the ORB and see what
happens. Also configure it with --enable-debug, then export
ORBIT2_DEBUG=traces, and post what you see printed out here.

> ORBit2-2.4.0.0.200206240452-0.snap.ximian.1
> ORBit2-devel-2.4.0.0.200206240452-0.snap.ximian.1

	Grab a new snapshot, that's 3 months old :-)

	HTH,

		Michael.

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