>Number:         18377
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       A NULL character in config file confuses config(8)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Sep 22 13:23:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Emmanuel Dreyfus
>Release:        NetBSD-1.6
>Organization:
The NetBSD Project
>Environment:
NetBSD kiwi 1.6 NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Sep  8 19:43:40 UTC 2002     autobuild@tgm.daemon.org:/autobuild/i386/OBJ/autobuild/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

>Description:
config will silently prepare a broken build directory when the config 
file contains a ^@ (NULL character) at the beginning of a line.
>How-To-Repeat:
insert a line of NULL chars in a broken config file and try to build 
a kernel.
>Fix:
The simpliest fix would be to consider a NULL char as a comment...
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: