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Re: [sed] bug when matching null bytes

From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: [sed] bug when matching null bytes
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:56:03 +0200
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Bert Bos wrote:

Hello,

I think I found a bug in GNU sed: The "." regular expression doesn't
match null bytes.
This is mandated by POSIX. It is not documented, which is a bug. And the --binary flag that was added in current CVS sed (and used only on Win32 systems) could be overloaded to disable it. 

Paolo
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