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authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2014-04-27 14:17:56 +0200
committerJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2014-04-27 14:17:56 +0200
commite3ee459005940806916c5f3d2530d3cf15966e1b (patch)
tree41fcda103ec5f4b3ae8d489b20f7ca718ed2ddb2
parent58f972ef71506d1ba83970196bcc2a71a2b11889 (diff)
base64: better justification
-rwxr-xr-xsrc/password-store.sh6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/password-store.sh b/src/password-store.sh
index d7f5eb0..6c89c2f 100755
--- a/src/password-store.sh
+++ b/src/password-store.sh
@@ -136,9 +136,9 @@ check_sneaky_paths() {
#
clip() {
- # This base64 business is a disgusting hack to deal with newline inconsistancies
- # in shell. There must be a better way to deal with this, but because I'm a dolt,
- # we're going with this for now.
+ # This base64 business is because bash cannot store binary data in a shell
+ # variable. Specifically, it cannot store nulls nor (non-trivally) store
+ # trailing new lines.
local sleep_argv0="password store sleep on display $DISPLAY"
pkill -f "^$sleep_argv0" 2>/dev/null && sleep 0.5