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Date:      Thu, 6 Jan 2000 07:50:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/15929: printf(1) truncates if it sees 000 
Message-ID:  <200001061550.HAA70549@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/15929; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: archie@whistle.com
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/15929: printf(1) truncates if it sees 000 
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 17:43:39 +0200

 On Wed, 05 Jan 2000 17:14:14 PST, Archie Cobbs wrote:
 
 > 	$ 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?
 
 Ciao,
 Sheldon.
 


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