ames: account for variable-size num fragments #561
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Currently we assume that the number of fragments in a
meow
has a fixed size of 4 bytes (which is also how we deserialize meows in in lull.hoon; see+sift-meow
), but in some cases we will retrieve from the cache a meow that has less than 4 bytes, which means that we will go over the actual length of the meow when calculating the size of the response to be sent.(To reproduce the problem, this pdf will cause the publisher to crash on the last fragment if anybody requests it using remote scry)
This PR fixes this by checking how many bytes are actually used in a word, and then using that information to correctly calculate the size of the
meow
.Thanks to @pkova and @joemfb for helping with this.