From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 02:51:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] log-tree: use custom line terminator in line termination mode
Message-ID: <86ehr4r4u0.fsf@red.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd36oesjr.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

>>>>> "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.

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