It was thus said that the Great Rainer Gerhards once stated: > > -----Original Message----- > > > > What is the semantic meaning of a NUL? Because there are other > > problematic characters (say, CTRL-Z under Windows) that can also cause > > issues with the tool stream. Knowing how an ASCII NUL is used (or > > meant to > > be used) could help decide how to handle it. > > The original US-ASCII semantic is a NOP (no-operation). NULs were used to > stuff in extra bytes to give terminal devices (VT 100 and similar ones) some > time to execute "more demanding" escape sequences (like clear screen). During > processing these sequences, some input characters could be lost (especially > at higher rates like 2,400 baud or above ;)). So NUL were sent as loss > victims. > > However, this is not the problem. The semantic in the C context is that NUL > is an indicator for "end of string".
No, I meant the semantic meaning of NUL is syslog messages. Why would you want to log a message with such a character? (or any of the control characters really) -spc _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
