bug#51669: some patterns which should match 0x0 don’t do so

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bug#51669: some patterns which should match 0x0 don’t do so

From:	Paul Eggert
Subject:	bug#51669: some patterns which should match 0x0 don’t do so
Date:	Sun, 7 Nov 2021 23:20:24 -0800
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On 11/7/21 16:45, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

why is 0x00 different from 0x02?

POSIX says text files cannot contain NUL bytes. They can contain 0x02bytes, though.


https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_403

More generally, in a POSIX system any method for deciding whether a fileis text vs binary is to some extent a heuristic, and there will alwaysbe corners in any such heuristic.

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