Peter van Hardenberg wrote:
> On January 13, 2006 03:00 pm, you wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Hans Reiser wrote:
>>
>>>If someone figures out why we can't do it but /proc can, or even fixes
>>>it, it would be good.
>>
>>It wouldn't be something so simple as echo's trailing newline, would it?
>>
>>-Jonathan
>
>
> Good thought, but no:
[...]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/norbs/reiser/emptydir/..../plugin$ echo "ext-1" -n >
> fibration
[...]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/norbs/reiser/emptydir/..../plugin$ irb
> irb(main):004:0> f = open('fibration', 'w')
> => #<File:fibration>
> irb(main):005:0> f.write('ext-1')
> => 5
> irb(main):006:0> f.close
> => nil
> irb(main):007:0> exit
[...]
> I'd look more closely at how proc does it and how we do it, but I'm too tired
> for source digging tonight.
I think the difference is that Reiser expects a null-terminated string,
whereas Proc doesn't need the null, and can chop off newlines when needed.
So, I think this would also work:
echo -en 'ext-1\0' > fibration
