Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:30:03 GMT From: Valentin Davydov <sp@m.davydov.spb.su> To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/25542: sh(1) null char in quoted string Message-ID: <200907271930.n6RJU3VS005183@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/25542; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Valentin Davydov <sp@m.davydov.spb.su> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, sp@m.davydov.spb.su Cc: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> Subject: Re: bin/25542: sh(1) null char in quoted string Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:50:54 +0400 (MSD) At Sat, 4 Apr 2009 14:41:43 +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: >Considering that fixing this would be a lot of work and cannot be done >completely (for example, argument strings and environment variables >cannot contain '\0'), I think it is best to close this. I think, at least documentation issue mentioned in the original PR 25542 can be corrected easy. Here is the patch: --- src/bin/sh/sh.1.orig 2007-12-05 17:29:07.000000000 +0300 +++ src/bin/sh/sh.1 2009-07-27 22:36:39.000000000 +0400 @@ -2381,4 +2381,6 @@ .Sh BUGS The .Nm -utility does not recognize multibyte characters. +utility does not recognize multibyte characters. +ASCII <NULL> character in input strings, parameters etc. can be mishandled by +.Nm .
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