Re: ORBit object IDs

[Diego Sevilla Ruiz <dsevilla ditec um es>]

Hi, I definitely looked at ORBit, not ORBit2, and you can find it here
the HEAD branch, which seems to be corrected:

http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/ORBit/src/orb/orbit_poa.c

	Best regards.
	diego.

On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 12:23:29AM +0900, Huw Rogers wrote:

| And not in the HEAD either. Were you looking at ORBit2? This is a bug in
| ORBit stable.
| 
| 	-Huw
| 
| > 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
| > > | | -- 
| > > | | Huw Rogers <rogers@building2.co.jp>
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