[xad] pickling / unpickling self-relative (was: Re: Quick question on IDL)
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
lkcl at samba-tng.org
Tue Oct 16 09:09:04 GMT 2001
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:02:39AM +1000, Luke Howard wrote:
>
> >just took a look at it, compiled up the encoding example,
> >i notice that it sends the idl UUID at the beginning,
> >plus the idl version number etc.
>
> Hmm. That's no good for the PAC either... is there a way to
> turn this off?
reading? yes. writing? no.
> >it looks like what microsoft has done is to change the
> >meaning of the pointer token field when pickling is used.
>
> Unless their IDL declares an offset rather than a pointer
> type?
... no.
> Seems unlikely for strings etc though.
believe it or not...
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