On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:32:47 -0700 Wes wrote:
WH> So.... The solution? Either:
WH>
WH> A) The solution you've done which is to create a new
WH> wrapper function. Put that in the base code and encourage it for
WH> all use of strings which need to be null terminated.
WH>
WH> B) encourage people to simply pass in the re-allocatable bit if
WH> they're going to print. Then reallocate if you're at exact
WH> length so you can add the null.
I vote A. Firmly. Loudly.
WH> Robert> No, sorry. There is no reason to force anyone who understands
WH> Robert> the ASN strings come with a length to allocate bigger buffers
WH> Robert> because some people don't understand ASN strings.
WH>
WH> Now, having said all of the above: the one thing here is that very
WH> very few places in general code need to call asn parsing functions
WH> directly.
Consistency dictates that if we change it null termination here, we do the
same in read_config_read_octet_string(). This is a higher level function more
likely to be used by end users.
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