[erlang-patches] fixed reading compressed binary terms from Java

[Kenneth Lundin]

Den 25 apr 2012 10:48 skrev "Nico Kruber" <lists.nico.k@REDACTED>:
>
> Problem was that when reading from an InputStream, you can only specify a
> maximum number of bytes to read. Java doesn't guarantee that it actually
reads
> this many bytes - it could be less!
>
> This patch now reads up until the expected size number of bytes. If there
are
> more than expected, the actual number of available bytes is not printed
(we
> probably shouldn't read the additional bytes, security-wise - the erlang
> external byte representation is broken in this case though).
What do you mean with this? Please explain. What is broken?
>
> I applied a patch posted on erlang-questins in September 2009, see
> http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-patches/2009-September/000478.html
> It was not enough to fix the bug though so I extended this patch a little.
>
> https://github.com/NicoK/otp/compare/jinterface.fix_compressed_binary
>
https://github.com/NicoK/otp/compare/jinterface.fix_compressed_binary.patch
>
>
> Regards
> Nico Kruber
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/Kenneth, Erlang/OTP Ericsson
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