Re: Can NUL bytes be removed from the installer output?

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Subject: Re: Can NUL bytes be removed from the installer output?
From: uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov)
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:27:12 +0000 (UTC)

Sarah Newman <srn%prgmr.com@localhost> wrote:

> I had to patch vixen (the Xen PV-in-HVM shim) just for the NetBSD
> domU installer due to NUL characters in the installer output:
> 
> https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-01/msg01191.html
> 
> That patch is not currently part of the official branch and I don't
> know if it will be integrated.  Is it possible for the character
> encoding or something to be changed so there are no NUL bytes any
> more?

Padding NUL bytes are pretty normal in serial output.  See e.g.
section on "Padding" in the GNU termcap manual:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/termutils/manual/termcap-1.3/html_mono/termcap.html#SEC7

-uwe

References:
- Can NUL bytes be removed from the installer output?
  - From: Sarah Newman

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