On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 7:45 AM Lawrence Velázquez <v...@larryv.me> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, at 1:26 AM, Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev wrote: > > well i saw now, printf a char of "\0" results in 0 bytes out to wc -c > > % /usr/bin/printf '\0' | wc -c > 1 > > > > however my solution still stays > > you just use memory locations instead of c strings > > and those entries in memory are of course of known length, before setting > > and all is fine > > "Your" solution is decades old. Everyone knows how Pascal-style > strings work. This is not cutting-edge computer science.
i dunno what pascal strings are, sorry > > of course this means to not use these fauly 'c strings', but a self > > coded solution > > As Greg already mentioned, such a system requires converting back > to C strings for system calls and other external APIs. It's not > insurmountable, but it's more involved than just swapping all your > char * to my_string or whatever hard work this way i see sorry, thanks. > > I repeat: > > >> It's so simple that you should have no problem converting the entire > >> bash codebase to Pascal-style strings yourself. We'll wait. > > > -- > vq
