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From: "Matt D." <matt@codespunk.com>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: -displayfd outputting some garbage?
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2017 01:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <589A6E11.8060704@codespunk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <589A6A71.4000703@gmail.com>

This is causing issues where I try to perform:

echo $(cat .display)

Which results in:

bash: warning: command substitution: ignored null byte in input
0


Matt D.

On 2/7/2017 7:46 PM, Matt D. wrote:
> I have an xinit script which outputs the display id to a file with the
> following option:
>
> xinit .. -displayfd 3 3>$HOME/.display
>
> This outputs correctly '0' but appends 0x00 and 0x0A. Why is it
> outputting a null byte and this 0x0A?
>
>
> Matt D.

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       reply	other threads:[~2017-02-08  1:02 UTC|newest]

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     [not found] <589A6A71.4000703@gmail.com>
2017-02-08  1:02 ` Matt D. [this message]
2017-02-09  0:44   ` Jon Turney

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