Clarifications on the D-Bus specification

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:33:10 -0500, Havoc Pennington <hp at pobox.com> wrote:
> In a quick look I don't see any limit in the libdbus source on
> recursing into nested types. The limit is just on the "depth" of the
> type signature, which does not reflect dynamic type recursion as
> created by variants.
> 
> It could probably be fixed by tracking the recursion depth in the
> iterators. But the API probably doesn't allow throwing an error from
> the right functions. So it could be tricky.

I am a bit concerned here. Unlimited recursion might trigger a call stack
overflow somewhere (I do mean proper stack overflow, not stack-based buffer
overflow).

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