Re: ORBit object IDs

[Huw Rogers <count0 building2 co jp>]

Not on the orbit-stable-0-5 branch.

	-Huw

> 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
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> | | Huw Rogers <rogers@building2.co.jp>
> | | 
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