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With fixed-width records, writing the extra nulls may be important for data privacy reasons and in any case, it allows comparison using memcpy(3), diff(1), and
by jedbrown 11y ago
With fixed-width records, writing the extra nulls may be important for data privacy reasons and in any case, it allows comparison using memcpy(3), diff(1), and checksums.
- _kst_ 11y agoSure, but then you have to make sure that you always maintain the extra nulls. diff(1) doesn't seem relevant; it operates on text files, which normally don't contain any null characters.