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Fix yet another sed bug. The s/// command would copy the \ of substitutions before deciding what to do with them (generally overwriting the \ with the new data). When the substitution was A) at the very end of the new string, B) resolved to nothing, it could leave a trailing \ that didn't belong there and didn't get overwritten because the "copy trailing data" part that copies the original string's null terminator already happened before the \ overwrote it. The ghostwheel() function restarts regexes after embedded NUL bytes, but if the string it's passed is _longer_ than the length it's told then it gets confused (and it means we're off the end of our allocation so segfaults are likely). Fix: test for \ first and move the "copy byte" logic into an else case.
author Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
date Mon, 15 Dec 2014 03:34:55 -0600
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Posix commands

Commands defined in POSIX-2008, also known as the Single Unix
Specification version 4, available online at
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/idx/utilities.html