Re: ActiveX Buffer Overruns

From: Michael Nelson (mikenelat_private)
Date: Wed Oct 06 1999 - 15:35:57 PDT

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    On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Chris wrote:
    > Scuse me for butting in, but I have to say that this is only partially
    > correct.
    >
    > YES, the com subsystem will marshall data sent to/from a 'remote' COM object
    > (be that a separate process on the same system, or a process on a remote
    > machine).
    >
    > But NO, the com subsystem does NOT marshall data for an inproc server (i.e.
    > any COM object exposed as a .DLL, .OCX, or .whatever-Microsoft-calls-them-
    > today.
    
    Clarification -- if the caller and the object are in different apartments
    -- even within the same process -- marshaling occurs.
    
    -mike
    



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