RFC: Transparent subrepository support by match module

[Martin Geisler]

"Daniel J. Lauk" <daniel.lauk at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Klaus
>
> I don't think that your idea with \0 would work.

It cannot work no matter how friendly the shell is. The problem is that
command line arguments are passed to programs as C strings, that is,
NUL-terminated strings. This implies that you cannot pass a NUL
character in a command line argument.

In zsh there is something they call POSIX-quotes, and that lets me do
this:

  % python -c 'import sys; print repr(sys.argv[-1])' $'x\ny'
  'x\ny'

where you can see that the newline character was passed through just
fine. However, a \0 terminates the string:

  % python -c 'import sys; print repr(sys.argv[-1])' $'x\0y'
  'x'

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Martin Geisler

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