Re: The read builtin erroneously consumes null bytes

Kerin Millar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Consider the following test case. It demonstrates NUL being consumed by the read builtin, rather than by cat(1) as it should have been.
> 
> $ printf 'a\n\0bc' | dash -c 'read x; cat' | od -An -t x1 -c
>  62  63
>   b   c
> 
> This defect may be attributable to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git/tree/src/input.c?h=v0.5.13.4#n411.
> 
> Incidentally, it results in tests #5510, #5558 and #6020 failing for git v2.54.0.

Is this a regression? If so please bisect it to the commit that
introduced it.

Thanks,
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