The comment above the line would seem to indicate otherwise:
Here is the comment:
/* Now erase the contents of the current line and undo the effects of the
rl_accept_line() above. We don't even want to make the text we just
executed available for undoing. */
Bill
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Eduardo A. Bustamante López <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 01:53:52PM -0700, Bill Parker wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > In reviewing the code at line 990 in bashfile.c, while the
> > issue of rl_line_buffer[0] = '\0', would it not be better to
> > use memset(rl_line_buffer, '\0', sizeof(rl_line_buffer)) to
> > clobber the entire line more effectively? The patch file
> > below addresses this issue:
> [...]
>
> I don't think the intention of that line is to clear the whole buffer. If
> that
> buffer is to hold a C string, then the current code is sufficient to make
> that
> a 'null' string.
>
> --
> Eduardo Bustamante
> https://dualbus.me/
>
