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On Sat Mar 23 17:12:20 2013, perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org wrote:
> * 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.
And mine, too. Just to be clear, in case we misunderstand each other,
that means no warnings, just a failed system call, which will be
detected by the existing error checking code. (You *do* check the
return values of your system calls, right? :-)
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Father Chrysostomos
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