[cifs-protocol] erroneous references to little-endian

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Aug 10 01:40:55 MDT 2009


On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 09:42 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 09:23 -0700, Richard Guthrie wrote:
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > We will continue to work to resolution on the broader issue of how to
> > handle bit fields in the documentation.  Your feedback is much
> > appreciated there.  For this specific issue, in general, for
> > custom-marshaled fields you should see a bit field that follows the
> > RFC convention where the high bit of the first byte to hit the wire is
> > in column 0, and the low bit of the last byte to hit the wire is in
> > column 31 (so that the bits are shown from left-to-right in the order
> > they naturally appear over the network). 
> 
> Your two statements are inconsistent, and not consistent with what the
> documentation does.  Do you mean to say that I can expect the above in
> future, or that you claim the documentation does the above?
> 
> If the bits were numbers, for little-endian numbers, such that bit 0,
> representing integer 1 appeared a the left (the little end), and that
> the numbers in the heading increased 0..31 left-to-right, above the
> value such that for it's natural natural number representation (as
> indicated by the stated endianness) that value == n^2, then I would be
> happy. 
> 
> > We are going back through the documentation to ensure that custom
> > marshaled fields have the appropriate specification for endianness.
> 
> Alternately, can you please point me at the RFC that indicates both bit
> numbering such that (value != n^2) where n is the described bit number,
> and where bits are ordered in a different order to bytes.  
> 
> Microsoft's documentation is the only place, ever, that I have seen this
> insanity. 

I'm still unsatisfied with the situation here.  Will there ever be any
progress?

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.
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