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[PATCH] `substitute' crashes when file contains NUL characters (core-updates)

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Message #17 received at 30116 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 30116 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30116: [PATCH] `substitute' crashes when file contains NUL
 characters (core-updates)
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2018 23:24:34 -0500

ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> I've encountered the following crash when trying to use substitute on a
>> file which contains NUL characters:
>
> Yes, that’s because Guile’s ‘regexp-exec’ simply wraps libc’s ‘regexec’,
> which does not handle NULs.
>
> We should consider switching to the pure-Scheme SRFI-115:
>
>   https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-115/srfi-115.html

This looks good, and I started looking into porting `substitute' to it,
but quickly noticed it doesn't seem to be implemented in Guile yet?

Thanks,

Maxim

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