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* Lukas Mai <plokinom@gmail.com> [2013-03-23T11:34:47]
> >I explicitly allow typical harmless programmer errors adding another \0
> >at the end.
>
> My favorite semantics would be to not treat \0 specially, regardless of
> warnings. That means failing with ENOENT if you pass such a string to
> open, unlink, stat, ... etc, because as far as Perl is concerned, there
> is a \0 in that string, and as far as the file system is concerned, no
> such file exists. Similarly, glob("*\0") should return ().
This is also my feeling on the topic.
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rjbs
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