On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 at 09:39:54 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Before we start to work on some packages, I’d like to ask if someone has >> checked whether D-Bus is multiarch-safe. Said otherwise, is it possible >> to use a D-Bus interface over another architecture? > > D-Bus is machine-word-size-neutral (all types have a known size in bits) so > that's fine. Foreign-endian messages are always *meant* to have worked, but > nobody tested that, so it was broken until recently (CVE-2011-2200). Fixed > now, though. > > If a particular D-Bus API bypasses the D-Bus type system and sends > native-endian or native-word-size structs as a byte array, then nothing > in D-Bus will save you from that, but that would be a silly thing > to do, and I'm not aware of any API that does so.
Even dark corner like double endianess ? Bastien > > (Coincidentally, I've just uploaded a Multi-Arch: same version of libdbus > to unstable.) > > Regards, > S > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/20110701080104.gb10...@reptile.pseudorandom.co.uk > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi�yLdPHvnkjRq6488pB3uO=w...@mail.gmail.com
