Re: Vulnerabilities in Synchronous IPC Designs

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:01:23PM -0700, Andreas Haeberlen wrote:
> Actually, this _is_ supported in the current implementation.
> Try compiling something like:
> 
>       interface foo {
>          void bar(in string<40> x, in string<20> y);
>       };
> 
> and you will find that the message is transferred completely in
> registers. What Marcus has observed is probably an issue with
> the current release, which sometimes causes the server loop to
> allocate more buffer space than it actually needs.

I am using sequence<L4_Word_t, 4>, for example.

Thanks,
Marcus

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