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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
Cc: "Jan Krüger" <jk@jk.gs>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] log-tree: use custom line terminator in line termination mode
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:27:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhaw0cyql.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ehr4r4u0.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> (Randal L. Schwartz's message of "Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:51:51 -0700")

merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

>>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
> Junio> Having said that, are we sure that
>
> Junio> 	printf "add bar\0initial"
>
>
> Junio> works per specification, or merely works by accident in some
> Junio> implementation?
>
> From the POSIX spec
> (http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/printf.html):
>
>     In addition to the escape sequences shown in XBD File Format Notation (
>     '\\' , '\a' , '\b' , '\f' , '\n' , '\r' , '\t' , '\v' ), "\ddd" , where
>     ddd is a one, two, or three-digit octal number, shall be written as a
>     byte with the numeric value specified by the octal number.
>
> Looks pretty intentional to me.  \0 is a nul.

I was staring at the same passage, but somehow it didn't "click" for me
that the above is _not_ saying that the NUL would terminate the string.

So I was worried too much and needlessly.  Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-01  4:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-30 17:58 git log -z still outputting newlines? Randal L. Schwartz
2012-04-30 18:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-04-30 19:02   ` Thomas Rast
2012-04-30 18:45 ` [PATCH] log-tree: use custom line terminator in line termination mode Jan Krüger
2012-04-30 19:36   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-30 20:28     ` [PATCH v2] " Jan Krüger
2012-04-30 22:58       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-04-30 23:28         ` Jan Krüger
2012-05-01  0:28         ` Andreas Schwab
2012-05-01  0:43           ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01  7:29             ` Andreas Schwab
2012-05-01  2:51         ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-05-01  4:27           ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2012-05-01  8:56     ` [PATCH] " Jeff King
2012-05-01 16:12       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01 17:06         ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-01 20:03           ` Junio C Hamano

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