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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Subject: Re: bin/15929: printf(1) truncates if it sees 000
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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
 
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