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From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: [9front] [PATCH] syscall: utility overhaul
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On Sat, Sep 19, 2020, at 2:05 PM, kvik@a-b.xyz wrote:
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> * The -o flag outputs the entire buffer to the length returned
>   by the syscall, or, in case of fd2path(2) and errstr(2), to '\0'.

If a user redirects this output to a file and tries to edit it, sam and acme will remove the \0 bytes and issue a warning on load. Ed doesn't warn, but truncates lines at \0. Just raising the issue in case it's relevant. IMO, these are minor bugs in our editors.

> * The -x flag is removed; the above makes it possible to pipe
>   into xd(1) to get the same result.

I'm not familiar with syscall, but is it really the same result?