Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: binfmt_script and ^M | Date | 5 Mar 2001 08:53:03 -0800 |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1010305102226.9913A-100000@chaos.analogic.com> By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The '\r' (^R) definitely has special significance to Unix. It's called > "VREPRINT", in the termios structure member "c_cc". >
'\r' is ^M, not ^R.
> There is really no such thing as "whitespace" in Unix compatible text. > For instance, the text in a Makefile MUST use the tab character as a > separator. Spaces won't do.
Whitespace is defined by POSIX as '\n', '\r', '\t', '\v', '\f' or ' '. Occationally, the specific *kind* of whitespace matters -- for example, '\n' frequently have different behaviour; as does '\t' in make.
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