Re: Can NUL bytes be removed from the installer output?
[email protected] (Valery Ushakov) Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:27:12 +0000 (UTC)
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Sarah Newman <[email protected]> wrote: > I had to patch vixen (the Xen PV-in-HVM shim) just for the NetBSD > domU installer due to NUL characters in the installer output: > > https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-01/msg01191.html > > That patch is not currently part of the official branch and I don't > know if it will be integrated. Is it possible for the character > encoding or something to be changed so there are no NUL bytes any > more? Padding NUL bytes are pretty normal in serial output. See e.g. section on "Padding" in the GNU termcap manual: https://www.gnu.org/software/termutils/manual/termcap-1.3/html_mono/termcap.html#SEC7 -uwe