Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:13:57 +0000 (UTC) From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r198624 - stable/8/bin/sh Message-ID: <200910292113.n9TLDvJ1009721@svn.freebsd.org>
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Author: jilles Date: Thu Oct 29 21:13:57 2009 New Revision: 198624 URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198624 Log: MFC r197371: 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 Modified: stable/8/bin/sh/ (props changed) stable/8/bin/sh/sh.1 Modified: stable/8/bin/sh/sh.1 ============================================================================== --- stable/8/bin/sh/sh.1 Thu Oct 29 20:53:26 2009 (r198623) +++ stable/8/bin/sh/sh.1 Thu Oct 29 21:13:57 2009 (r198624) @@ -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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