Hello, Applied, thanks!
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues, le lun. 21 sept. 2026 14:56:04 +0200, a ecrit: > this is my first contribution to the hurd project so please feel free to > criticize anything because I don't know (yet) what I'm doing. :) Just one nitpick: please make your mailer send the patch as text/ mime type, so that mailers put it inline in answers to make it easy to comment on it. Samuel > > My goal is to enumerate the translators in directories from a script. I > already > learned that just creating a pax tarball of the directory (because tar can > store translator information) doesn't work so I tried using the showtrans > utility. Reading the source of showtrans I noticed that it replaces all > occurrences of null bytes in the translator data with spaces. This makes it > impossible to retrieve the original translator arguments if an argument itself > contains a space character. This patch adds a --zero option to showtrans > similar to how other GNU tools have such an option to be able to handle files > with arbitrary file names. > > Feel free to edit the patch in any form you like or pass it back to me with > review comments so that I can improve on it. > > Thanks! > > cheers, josch
