-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Tridge,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> The problem is not so much in that pidl can't support "simple" >> null-terminated utf8 strings, but more in the fact that it is not >> possible to use it in other IDL compilers (such as MIDL or >> WIDL). Please let me know which of the two you prefer, and I'll >> fix it. > I'd prefer to keep the old format. We have to support strings like > that anyway for things like nbt.idl where the on-wire string format > is dictated by an external standard. I put xattr.idl in the same > category - its written as IDL to allow us to reuse the nice IDL > infrastructure we have, not because we want it to work with other > IDL compilers. Ok - I'll change it back. > > I suspect if/when wine supports our xattr format they will use a > hand-marshaller not widl, as their IDL/NDR infrastructure is at the > wrong level to use it for filesystem extensions (or at least thats > the impression I got at the wine conference earlier this year). Makes sense. Cheers, Jelmer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDVMePPa9Uoh7vUnYRAtIbAJ9F1nbCG40FqR/m4Df45SkOEmRImwCff9Gu e/11VRyiTMzo+SO6T23u8cU= =EpL7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
