From: Chris Torek <chris.torek@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2020 01:00:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] t1450: fix quoting of NUL byte when corrupting pack
Message-ID: <CAPx1GvcZFVfmP8aTdXu_epdSn1EDy_cP6-=hi65c_5DbNEq+FQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20200801220611.10453-1-martin.agren@gmail.com>

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:08 PM Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> wrote:
>   printf '\0'
>
> to generate a NUL byte
[but]
> end up injecting the ASCII code for "0", 0x30, instead.

> -       printf '\0' | dd of=.git/objects/pack/pack-$pack.pack bs=1 conv=notrunc seek=12 &&
> +       printf "\0" | dd of=.git/objects/pack/pack-$pack.pack bs=1 conv=notrunc seek=12 &&

In sh/bash, this should make no difference, and that's what I get here.
Am I missing something?

$ printf '\0' | hexdump
0000000 0000
0000001
$ printf "\0" | hexdump
0000000 0000
0000001

Chris