On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:15:42PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > When we are generating the reply message though, we don't know how > big it'll be until we've made the XDR calls to serialize the struct > into the XDR. So we'd need to have the full sized buffer for filling > out the reply. Fair enough. PortableXDR has been taking liberties with the 'traditional' xdr*_create backends, and one that I mean to implement is a variant of xdrmem which dynamically allocates the buffer. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list