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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Re: dbus_message_demarshal() and partial messages
From:       "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-08-15 0:51:51
Message-ID: 32541b130708141751l435d1182ia0db555beb105521 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 14/08/07, Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org> wrote:
> I'd rather not return DBUS_MINIMUM_HEADER_SIZE because it could indicate
> that that's EXACTLY the number of bytes wanted when it clearly isn't.
>
> But, seeing that that symbol is public, we can probably say that if you
> don't have DBUS_MINIMUM_HEADER_SIZE bytes available, you shouldn't be
> calling the bytes_needed function. So I'd return -1 and make that an
> error (probably one of those assertions "you're not using this function
> properly").

That works for me, as long as DBUS_MINIMUM_HEADER_SIZE remains public.

Have fun,

Avery
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