From: Eric Cook <llua@gmx.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Trailing whitespace after $'\0' with external commands
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:55:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52D1D9DE.1000201@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <140111153552.ZM14759@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 01/11/2014 06:35 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> I can only conclude that ksh is not actually retaining the nul byte in
> the argument list when calling /usr/bin/printf. There's an argument
> (no pun intended) to be made for this behavior, in that it's impossible
> for a string passed through the argv mechanism of execve and friends to
> contain an embedded nul; the string will always end at that byte, so
> ksh assumes it knows better than you and removes it so that the called
> program (/usr/bin/printf in this case) can see the "whole" string.
>
> Conversely, zsh is just doing *exactly* what you told it to do.
Ah, thank you for explaining it.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-11 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-11 22:18 Eric Cook
2014-01-11 22:33 ` Eric Cook
2014-01-11 23:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-01-11 23:55 ` Eric Cook [this message]
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