Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:40:01 -0800 (PST)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/15929: printf(1) truncates if it sees 000
Message-ID:  <200001061740.JAA81806@freefall.freebsd.org>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
The following reply was made to PR bin/15929; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To: sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn)
Cc: archie@whistle.com, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/15929: printf(1) truncates if it sees 000
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 09:33:49 -0800 (PST)

 Sheldon Hearn writes:
 > > 	$ printf 'a\000truncated\n'
 > > 
 > > 	This outputs "a" instead of "a<NUL>truncated"
 > 
 > What would you expect to happen, given that printf(3) exhibits the same
 > behaviour?
 
 No, I'm not at all surprised.
 
 But that's not the point, of course.  Either the bug should be fixed
 or else at least declared 'normal' and so documented in the man page.
 
 -Archie
 
 ___________________________________________________________________________
 Archie Cobbs   *   Whistle Communications, Inc.  *   http://www.whistle.com
 


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200001061740.JAA81806>