Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: splitstring and nullbytes Author: joke Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18907,18915#msg-18915
After a little bit of testing I think this is a bug. The input processing seems to have problems with null-bytes. Either the output of execresult isn't copied to the assigned variable or processing this variables later on doesn't respect null-bytes. I think this problem might be related to using strcpy rather then memcpy while coping the result during processing. In any case the reference manual should clearly mention that string variables are c-strings not strings. For example my shell does proper string handling. Both statements produce the same output: files="$(find -print0)"; echo "$files" | cat -A find -print0 | cat -A _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
