Bug 216838 – Patch to add null terminated output to slocate

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description marty rosenberg 2008-04-08 08:51:00 UTC]

this patch adds the -0 flag to slocate that will force slocate's output to be
null terminated rather than newline terminated in a manner similar to find -print0, and compatible with xargs -0.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
slocate doesn't have this option by default.

[Comment 1 marty rosenberg 2008-04-08 08:52:09 UTC]

Created attachment 149086 [details]
patch for null terminated output

[Comment 2 marty rosenberg 2008-04-08 09:24:26 UTC]

Created attachment 149089 [details]
patch that actually works

printf("%s\0", foo); doesn't do what you want it to do.  Also made the --help output fit into an 80 character terminal

[Comment 3 Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) 2008-04-09 18:38:19 UTC]

Your latest patch has some extra cruft in it that makes it tough to read. Remove all your files ending in ~ and redo it. Thanks.

[Comment 4 marty rosenberg 2008-04-09 21:38:04 UTC]

Created attachment 149243 [details, diff]
cruft removed patch

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2008-04-10 03:52:31 UTC]

that still has whitespace noise, but it's easier to fix now

did you send this upstream ?  patch looks fine (havent tested it myself)

[Comment 6 marty rosenberg 2008-04-10 06:20:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> that still has whitespace noise, but it's easier to fix now
> 
> did you send this upstream ?  patch looks fine (havent tested it myself)
> 

Sent it upstream when I made the patch(and when I fixed it).  Haven't heard back from them yet.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2008-08-19 00:55:51 UTC]

thanks, added to slocate-3.1-r2

http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-apps/slocate/files/slocate-3.1-NUL.patch?rev=1.1