Jira (FACT-3206) Facter::Core::Execution.exec strips leading and trailing NULL bytes

['Kai Burghardt (Jira)' via Puppet Bugs]

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Kai Burghardt created an issue   Facter / FACT-3206 Facter::Core::Execution.exec strips leading and trailing NULL bytes Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2023/06/03 11:23 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Kai Burghardt (on the puppet master) create a custom fact Facter.add('test') do setcode do # This makes # Error: Facter: Error while resolving custom fact fact='sysctl', resolution='<anonymous>': invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 # go away: Encoding.default_external = Encoding::ASCII_8BIT value = Facter::Core::Execution.execute('/bin/cat /tmp/null') value.bytesize end end (on the node) create some content containing leading and/or trailing NULL bytes echo -en "\x00\x00\x00\x00" > /tmp/null (on the node) synchronize so the test fact becomes available (on the node) query the new fact puppet facts test Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.21#820021-sha1:38274c8) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.486429.1685816622000.4532.1685816640055%40Atlassian.JIRA.