Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 20:16:07 +0000 From: "Montgomery-Smith, Stephen" <stephen@missouri.edu> To: less xss <less.xss@gmail.com>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ctrl-d appends characters to output Message-ID: <54BAC302.7050800@missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAGcjGpP0t3%2BcJLRHS5Ggfjao9Vcy0xosAg2KqBWgVA_NtKoNgA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGcjGpP0t3%2BcJLRHS5Ggfjao9Vcy0xosAg2KqBWgVA_NtKoNgA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/17/2015 11:59 AM, less xss wrote:
> I've searched around quite a bit with no luck on this matter. I currently
> have an issue where I send EOF (ctrl-d) to some simple K&R2 exercises and
> the terminal returns the D character appended to my data when EOF is sent=
.
> I wish to prevent any and all extra characters from being appended and I
> would also like to understand why it's happening. The following code
> is an example exercise from K&R2 that yield said problem.
>=20
> #include <stdio.h>
>=20
> int main() {
> double nc;
>=20
> for (nc =3D 0; getchar() !=3D EOF; ++nc) {
> ; /* syntactic null statement */
> }
>=20
> printf("%.0f\n", nc);
> }
>=20
> $ ./a.out
> 0D
> $
I did a bit of experimenting with this issue. First, I cannot reproduce
it on my Linux box. Second, this simpler program does the same thing:
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
while (getchar() !=3D EOF) {
; /* syntactic null statement */
}
printf("\n");
}
In this case I get:
% ./a.out
^D
%
However, if I remove that last printf statement, then no ^D is displayed.
Considering the inconsistent nature of when this ^D appears, I would
prefer to call it a bug than a feature. But it must have been put there
by design.
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