Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 21:53:16 -0000 From: Matthew Whelan <muttley@gotadsl.co.uk> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sh(1) is broken - loss of data! Message-ID: <20011106215317.B2F0B37B405@hub.freebsd.org>
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06/11/2001 16:39:55, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@svzserv.kemerovo.su> wrote: >These codes (in decimal) that are processed incorrectly: >0, 9, 10, 11, 33, 129 and 136. 0 = end of string = not possible in a file name, not printable, no surprise there 9 = tab; read will discard it as a separator 10 = newline; read will be confused into thinking this is two lines 11 = read being confused by the newline 33 = this is really 32, ie. space, discarded by read as a separator The last couple are a slight surprise, but I can't reproduce them here. Matthew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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