Hi, this is my first contribution to the hurd project so please feel free to criticize anything because I don't know (yet) what I'm doing. :)
My goal is to enumerate the translators in directories from a script. I already learned that just creating a pax tarball of the directory (because tar can store translator information) doesn't work so I tried using the showtrans utility. Reading the source of showtrans I noticed that it replaces all occurrences of null bytes in the translator data with spaces. This makes it impossible to retrieve the original translator arguments if an argument itself contains a space character. This patch adds a --zero option to showtrans similar to how other GNU tools have such an option to be able to handle files with arbitrary file names. Feel free to edit the patch in any form you like or pass it back to me with review comments so that I can improve on it. Thanks! cheers, josch
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