bin/25542: commit references a PR

dfilter service dfilter at FreeBSD.ORG
Sun Sep 20 21:50:03 UTC 2009


The following reply was made to PR bin/25542; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: dfilter at FreeBSD.ORG (dfilter service)
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
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Subject: Re: bin/25542: commit references a PR
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:42:52 +0000 (UTC)

 Author: jilles
 Date: Sun Sep 20 21:42:38 2009
 New Revision: 197371
 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197371
 
 Log:
   Mention that NUL characters are not allowed in sh(1) input.
   
   I do not consider this a bug because POSIX permits it and argument strings
   and environment variables cannot contain '\0' anyway.
   
   PR:		bin/25542
   MFC after:	2 weeks
 
 Modified:
   head/bin/sh/sh.1
 
 Modified: head/bin/sh/sh.1
 ==============================================================================
 --- head/bin/sh/sh.1	Sun Sep 20 19:32:10 2009	(r197370)
 +++ head/bin/sh/sh.1	Sun Sep 20 21:42:38 2009	(r197371)
 @@ -375,6 +375,10 @@ introduces a comment if used at the begi
  The word starting with
  .Ql #
  and the rest of the line are ignored.
 +.Pp
 +.Tn ASCII
 +.Dv NUL
 +characters (character code 0) are not allowed in shell input.
  .Ss Quoting
  Quoting is used to remove the special meaning of certain characters
  or words to the shell, such as operators, whitespace, keywords,
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