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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0"


From: Jan Hudec
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Feature suggestion: "tla inventory -0"
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 11:27:51 +0100
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On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 11:35:29 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> Tom Lord wrote:
> 
> > ~ use 0 specially 
> > 
> >   losses: not terminal or editor friendly,
> >           can't handle 0 in fields

The separator is NUL byte. And since the kernel interface uses ASCIIZ
strings, there simply can't be NUL byte in filename. Since tla uses
ASCIIZ string all over the place too, there can't be NULL is other
fields either.

> >   wins: GNU xargs and GNU tar support it

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