CVS update: samba/source/rpcclient

tridge at samba.org tridge at samba.org
Sat Jan 18 09:47:58 EST 2003


> tridge, you're sure of what you're doing here ?

no, and thats why I have reverted the patch until I get it sorted
out. 

I do know that nearly all the existing uses of init_unistr2() are
incorrect for many non-ascii charsets. I also am sure that it should
not be the caller that determines the length of the string as
determining the character length of a string is actually quite
expensive and very error prone so it should be done as part of the
push_*().

I'm currently thinking of having a 'flags' parameter, allowing the
caller to specify whether the string should be null terminated or
not. This will be similar to (or even idential to) the STR_TERMINATE
flag we already use.

The 2nd major problem is the unihdr stuff. In all our init_*()
routines we tend to init the header before we init the unistr2. This
follows the order that the string is on the wire, but it is the wrong
order from a string handling point of view. We really should init the
header after initialising the unistr2, because the lengths in the
header are determined by the lengths in the unistr2, and we don't know
those till after we've done the push_*().

Cheers, Tridge



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