// Expected format: buffer format (0x04) + path string (null terminated)
        byte[] expected = new byte[directoryName.length() + 2];
        expected[0] = 0x04; // Buffer format
        System.arraycopy(directoryName.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8), 0, expected, 1, directoryName.length());
        expected[directoryName.length() + 1] = 0x00; // Null terminator

        byte[] dst = new byte[100];

            buffer = new DfsReferralRequestBuffer(path, maxReferralLevel);

            assertNotNull(buffer);
            assertEquals(4, buffer.size()); // 2 bytes for level + 2 bytes for null terminator
        }

        @Test
        @DisplayName("Should create buffer with null path")
        void testConstructorWithNullPath() {
            String path = null;
            int maxReferralLevel = 2;

        System.arraycopy(pathBytes, 0, dst, dstIndex, pathBytes.length);
        dstIndex += pathBytes.length;
        SMBUtil.writeInt2(0, dst, dstIndex);
        dstIndex += 2; // null terminator
        return dstIndex - start;
    }

        response.getServerData().scapabilities = 0;
        response.getServerData().encryptionKeyLength = 8;
        // Domain name in OEM encoding (ASCII) with null terminator
        byte[] domainBytes = "DOMAIN\0".getBytes("US-ASCII");
        // Use reflection to set protected byteCount field
        int byteCountValue = 8 + domainBytes.length;
        setByteCount(response, byteCountValue);

        buffer[10 + stringBytes.length] = 0; // null terminator

        // Use reflection to call protected readString method
        Method readStringMethod = getReadStringMethod();
        String result = (String) readStringMethod.invoke(response, buffer, 10, 128, false);

        assertEquals(testString, result);
    }

    @Test
    @DisplayName("Test readString with null terminator in middle")

	// recorded elsewhere (e.g., via PAX record) contains no trailing slash.
	if len(s) > len(b) && b[len(b)-1] == '/' {
		n := len(strings.TrimRight(s[:len(b)-1], "/"))
		b[n] = 0 // Replace trailing slash with NUL terminator
	}
}

// fitsInBase256 reports whether x can be encoded into n bytes using base-256
// encoding. Unlike octal encoding, base-256 encoding does not require that the

        // filename bytes, then null terminator
        byte[] nameBytes = name.getBytes();
        for (int i = 0; i < nameBytes.length; i++) {
            assertEquals(nameBytes[i], dst[12 + i], "Filename byte mismatch at index " + i);
        }
        assertEquals((byte) 0x00, dst[12 + nameBytes.length], "Filename must be null-terminated");
    }

    /**

        assertEquals(0x12, buffer[1] & 0xFF);
        // Check that the path is written after the referral level
        // The path should be written starting at index 2
        // writeString adds null terminator
        assertTrue(len > 2, "Length should include path");
        String writtenPath = extractStringFromBuffer(buffer, 2, len - 2);
        assertTrue(writtenPath.contains("abc"), "Path should be written to buffer");
    }

			if cr.debug {
				fmt.Println("trailer returned:", err)
			}
			if err != nil {
				cr.err = err
				return 0, err
			}
		}
		cr.err = io.EOF
		return n, cr.err
	}
	// read final terminator.
	err = mustRead('\r', '\n')
	if err != nil && err != io.EOF {
		cr.err = err
		return n, cr.err
	}

	cr.offset = copy(buf, cr.buffer)
	n += cr.offset
	return n, err
}

        smb.useUnicode = false;
        byte[] buffer = new byte[6];
        System.arraycopy("short".getBytes(), 0, buffer, 0, 5);
        buffer[5] = 0; // Null terminator
        String result = smb.readString(buffer, 0, 5, false);
        assertEquals("short", result);
    }

    @Test
    void testReadStringWithMaxLengthExceeded() {
        smb.useUnicode = false;