From e3ee459005940806916c5f3d2530d3cf15966e1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 14:17:56 +0200 Subject: base64: better justification --- src/password-store.sh | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'src') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3