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read string containing null

Hello, I just found out:

echo -e - a$'\000'b | IFS='' builtin read -r -d '' xx; echo -n - $xx

result is "a"

is it possible for builtin read not to stop an null bytes? I found nothing in documentation.

thanks

Pier Paolo Grassi

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