beginner question, byteorder.h
Jeremy Allison
jra at samba.org
Sun Nov 18 23:11:15 GMT 2007
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 12:46:40PM -0800, Milan Bella wrote:
> What is the deafult byteorder of SMB packet ?
Little-endian.
> In my opinion the only one assumption that uint16 is _at_least_ 16
> long is not sufficent. The packet byteorder
> must be known beforehand, for if not then we cannot interpret the
> packet value at pos at all.
SMB packets are *always* little-endian, except for
the places that aren't.
We always know which is which, so the code in
byteorder.h works.
Jeremy.
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