[Alpha-Bugzilla Bug 2368] [tclAE::processes] confused by null OSType

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------- Additional Comments From bde...@or...  2009-02-27 16:51 AEST -------
(In reply to comment #6)

> The OSType is not an empty string. It's four zeros. If you can guarantee that
this value 
> will always be properly interpreted as four zeros when talking to the OS, then
it's probably fine, but I 
> think it would be better to stop pretending that the OSType is a string. It's
not. It can hold any four 8-
> bit characters; e.g., I don't believe there's any rule that says it can't be
\0abc, which would be falsely 
> truncated by your change. 

I agree.
We're still facing the problem that anyway, with the current code, the entire
line is truncated and so are the following ones in [tclAE::process].

The string representation of the OSType is thus wrong. It should print
"\0\0\0\0". Probably we need a Tcl_ObjType for this.

 
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