On May 13 15:38, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > > From: Dale Stimson > > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 14:13 > > To: cygwin@cygwin.com > > Subject: Reading /proc/registry/... returns extra char > > > > Reading a file under /proc/registry returns an extra character at the > > end, > > which appears to be the null character. > > > > This has happened for every registry entry that I have tried. Here is > > one in particular: > > -------------------------------- > > $ cat >a.dat > > /proc/registry/HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Syst > > emBootDevice
This trailing NUL character was always there, already with Cygwin 1.5. It's part of the file content. If strings are stored with a trailing NUL in a file, you don't want Cygwin to remove it for you, right? > Not only that, but if you pipe that output to another process, you > (or should I say "I") get a stack dump: I can't observe this when using CVS HEAD. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
