Q about pidl client code in Samba 3

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> Jelmer,
> 
>>> I'm looking at the return code in rpccli_winreg_EnumKey():
>>>
>>> 	/* Return variables */
>>> 	*name = *r.out.name;
>>> 	*keyclass = *r.out.keyclass;
>>> 	*last_changed_time = *r.out.last_changed_time;
> 
> Here's another thing I don't get.  name in this
> case is struct winreg_String and is an [in,out,ref]
> variable.  The problem with EnumKey is that the name
> has to point to an existing buffer.  But the libndr
> layer just works on strlen() in this case.
> 
> So I allocated a string of the correct size and called
> 
> 	memset(name.name, 'a', maxsiz-1);
> 	name.name[maxsize-1] = '\0';
> 
> Is there an easier way to call these in/out ref
> pointers?

Ignore this one.  I misread the IDL.  It's a struct
winreg_StringBuf.  I'm assuming in this case you do
have to initialize the buffer size before passing
it to the rpccli_winreg_XX() functions.




cheers, jerry
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