Re: Cannot process scripts beyond an embedded NULL character when running in 'source' mode

[Roman Rakus]

On 06/02/2009 01:33 PM, Roman Rakus wrote:
> When you are sourcing bash script, which contains \0 character, bash 
> thinks it is end of file.
> I have investigated, that `source' loads entire file into memory as 
> string. Then \0 is end of this string.
> One of the possible solution is to left out all \0 characters. This 
> doesn't seem to be perfect.
> Another possible solution is to count size of the file and then 
> compare the size with actual string parsing.
> Maybe other solutions...
>
> Which solution should be the best?
> RR
This patch will delete all `\0' characters which are not at the end of 
sourced file.
RR

bash-3.2-nullchar.patch
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