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OpenBSD now enforcing no invalid NUL characters in shell scripts

's been 20 years since the first undeadly.org post appeared. At that point in our history, we had been enjoying frequent updates to the OpenBSD Journal at the deadly.org site for more than four years, and most of us thought it was an April's Fool prank when the the editors announced that they were ceasing publication, effective immediately on April 1st, 2004.

A series of commits by Jeremie Courreges-Anglas ( jca@) has modified tar(1) such that its default write format (for archives) is that of pax(1). Fortunately, Daniel Hartmeier quickly realized the announcement was not a joke, and went to work on a functionally equivalent CGI binary written in C and negotiated to take over the archive of existing articles. Every six months, spring and fall, a new OpenBSD release emerges on the web and familiar download mirrors.

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