Re: ORBit object IDs

[Diego Sevilla Ruiz <dsevilla ditec um es>]

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• From: Diego Sevilla Ruiz <dsevilla ditec um es>
• To: Huw Rogers <count0 building2 co jp>
• Subject: Re: ORBit object IDs
• Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 00:02:36 -0500

Hi again:

	I actuallly inspected the code and it is fixed in the GNOME CVS
version.

	Best regards.
	diego

On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:15:02PM -0500, Diego Sevilla Ruiz wrote:

| Hi, Huw
| 
| 	This should not be the case. I'll check the code for that, but
| in the spec it clearly indicates that the ObjectId can have any
| data inside (such as nul), so it cannot be treated like a string.
| 
| 	Best regards.
| 	diego.
| 
| On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 01:37:43PM +0900, Huw Rogers wrote:
| 
| | Does anyone know why does ORBit insist that object IDs are string-like
| | and null terminated? AFAIK there's nothing in the standard that requires
| | that the sequence<octet>s that are object IDs be string-like.
| | 
| | I'm concerned about orbit_poa.c:591, which g_assert()'s null termination,
| | and also comments elsewhere in the code referring to strlen() of the
| | object ID - when actually it can be binary data with embedded nulls.
| | 
| | BTW this refers to ORBit 0.5.15, but the same issue may be in ORBit2
| | 
| | 	-Huw
| | -- 
| | Huw Rogers <rogers@building2.co.jp>
| | 
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