[Dovecot] [checkpassword] I can't get a password from fd3

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 20:54 +0100, Durk Strooisma wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 18:31 +0100, Durk Strooisma wrote:
> >> #!/bin/bash
> >>
> >> read -d '\0' -r -u 3
> >
> > Are you sure this is supposed to work? \0 character is an end-of-string
> > character in C language, and I wouldn't be surprised if read simply
> > didn't support it as delimiter.
> 
> Well if I try to read everything, without delimiting using \0, I don't get
> more data...

Again the same reason: maybe read just doesn't support it. I actually
tried and couldn't really get it to work with zsh. With bash it worked
even worse.

Anyway I'm sure Dovecot works right, and the problem is just that you
can't do with shell scripting what you're trying to (at least not this
way).

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