[Xcb] Non Null-Terminated String in Text Property Reply
Julien Danjou
julien at danjou.info
Mon Sep 10 03:13:23 PDT 2012
On Mon, Sep 10 2012, Bastien Dejean wrote:
> It seems that the `strings` attribute of a
> `xcb_ewmh_get_utf8_strings_reply_t` is not null-terminated.
>
> (*Proof*: `strlen(strings)` can be greater that `strings_len`.)
>
> Maybe this could be mentioned in the documentation (I presume I should
> have induced it from the existence of the `strings_len` attribute).
Yes, that's obvious when you used XCB and did your request/reply
manually for a long time, nothing is ever null terminated. But you have
the length. :)
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Julien Danjou
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