Patch for reporting correctly offset when object has relative pointers

[Matthieu Patou]

Hello,

Please find attached an updated version of the patches

Matthieu
On 19/11/2009 10:47, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 08:40 +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
>> Jelmer Vernooij schrieb:
>>> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 01:46 +0300, Matthieu Patou wrote:
>>>> It's mostly done by metze, I just corrected a few typos and regenerated
>>>> files.
>>>>
>>>> I tested with my python xattr libs and now it works (thanks metze).
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> If we're doing this, is there any reason why we still need the hack to
>>> deal with relative pointers in pidl? We should be able to always call
>>> _blob_all now.
>>
>> Yes, we can remove the hack that tries to autodetect relative pointers.
>> But I think we should expose an api that allows the caller to force the
>> usage of just _blob(). Remember sometimes windows sends garbage at the
>> end of NDR encoded DCERPC pakets. That might also happen in other parts.
>> It would be bad if only C code can work arround this problem.
>>
>> I think a keyword parameter to the ndr_unpack method would be good for this.
> I don't think we should do this until we actually have a need for this.
> Python is generally used for scripting, I don't think every single
> method that is available in C needs to be exposed in Python (of course,
> there can be good reasons to expose low-level stuff anyway, but I
> haven't heard a practical situation for this argument where that is the
> case).
>
> Even if we would do this, we should support it in other places than
> __ndr_unpack__ as well. Functions starting with __ are generally
> considered private, and in this particular case users should be using
> samba.ndr.unpack().
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer