Re: redirecting a file descriptor to an array variable? Possible? How? RFE?

[Linda Walsh]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 10:46:57AM -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
> >         One thing that seems to be another problem.  Greg called
> > my attention to another printf format bug:
> >
> >              %q     causes  printf  to output the corresponding argument in 
> >              a
> >                     format that can be reused as shell input.
> >
> >         Which it doesn't when nuls are involved.
>
> An argument cannot contain a NUL byte.  So it's moot.
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        As in:
> printf '"%c"\n'  $'\x00'|hexdump -C
00000000  22 00 22 0a                                       |".".|

	I see 2 arguments being passed to printf. That puts the 
NUL byte between 2 double quotes and terminates the line w/a newline.

        What I'm pointing out is that a NUL byte can be used
and processed as an argument in some cases.  The fact that it doesn't work
in most places, I will agree, is a short-coming.  However one cannot
categorically say that a NUL byte can't be used as an argument.  Solving
other places where it doesn't work might make it so that it *would* work...

Maybe a "-b" (binary) option could be added to 'declare'?