From: Martin Neubauer <m.ne@gmx.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Environment variable
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 13:03:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060809110352.GA5077@shodan.homeunix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02E129D3-32DF-41CC-9026-46BAA1FF8133@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>
Hello,
I don't think that this really is weird. My understanding is that
the terminating '\0' is not treated as part of the content of a
string but merely of its representation in memory. So if you output
a null string, you don't actually output anything (and therefore
assign nothing to $b). That then explains why xd fails to open $a
(which is an actual string, albeit with length zero) and waits for
standard input because $b isn't expanded to anything.
I hope my attempt at an explanation wasn't utter nonsense and helped
clarifying a bit.
Regards,
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-09 11:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-04 9:37 [9fans] vmware? Anssi Porttikivi
2006-08-04 9:47 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-08-04 15:15 ` Richard Bilson
2006-08-04 15:44 ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-07 22:14 ` Richard Bilson
2006-08-07 23:50 ` Federico Benavento
2006-08-04 19:03 ` Gorka guardiola
2006-08-09 10:00 ` [9fans] Environment variable arisawa
2006-08-09 11:03 ` Martin Neubauer [this message]
2006-08-09 11:16 ` arisawa
2006-08-09 11:27 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 11:36 ` arisawa
2006-08-09 11:39 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 12:04 ` arisawa
2006-08-09 12:26 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 12:39 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 12:58 ` arisawa
2006-08-09 13:22 ` arisawa
2006-08-09 13:30 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-10 2:15 ` erik quanstrom
2006-08-09 12:03 ` [9fans] editor, man/less, dns setup, screen setup bituman
2006-08-09 12:08 ` Martin Neubauer
2006-08-09 12:08 ` Robert Raschke
2006-08-19 0:45 ` Rodolfo (kix)
2006-08-10 2:09 ` [9fans] Environment variable erik quanstrom
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