Padding at the end of message body?

[Jean Parpaillon]

HI,
fyi, you can find a pure erlang implementation of D-Bus at:
https://github.com/lizenn/erlang-dbus/

Parsing/serializing is done in the dbus_marshaller module.


Regards,
Jean

Le lundi 30 mai 2016 à 20:56 +0100, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> On 30/05/16 18:14, marcin at saepia.net wrote:
> > The message sometimes contains a bunch of null bytes after the body
> ...
> > The specification says "The message body need not end on an 8-byte
> > boundary." but "need not" does not equal "must not".
> 
> Please check how the reference implementation (libdbus) would
> interpret
> those bytes: as an accepted-and-discarded part of the message you
> have
> quoted, as padding between messages, or as part of the next message.
> Whichever interpretation it would use, you can consider that to be
> correct. A patch to dbus-specification.xml contributed via
> <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=dbus&component=co
> re>
> clarifying which one is meant would also be appreciated.
> 
> The reference dbus-daemon will usually disconnect clients that send
> anything that is considered malformed. If it doesn't, either that
> content is not considered malformed, or the reference dbus-daemon has
> a bug.
> 
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