Re: Can NUL bytes be removed from the installer output?

[email protected] (Valery Ushakov) Mon, 15 Jan 2018 17:27:12 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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