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On May 13 15:38, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
> > From: Dale Stimson
> > Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 14:13
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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

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