Re: [Libbt-devel] question about btlist

[Peter S. <stu...@cd...>]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:42:02PM +0100, Alien wrote:
>          0x502ab8(STRING)=(6)'pieces'
>          =>
>             0x502a50(STRING)=(156040)'[EAd???g?????f????????,1U?? ????...'
> 
> 
> this last string is that normal? a huge string? i thought the
> pieces were supposed to be there? which it would have to be a
> number?
> 
> thanks for any info relating to this

Quoting docs/protocol.txt:
--8<--
'pieces' maps to a string whose length is a multiple of 20. It is to
be subdivided into strings of length 20, each of which is the sha1
hash of the piece at the corresponding index.
-->8--

So yes, it's supposed to be long and binary.


//Peter