std.file functions and embedded NUL characters [CWE-158]

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Friday, 1 August 2025 at 00:22:20 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> On Friday, 1 August 2025 at 00:11:51 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer 
> wrote:
>> 
>> If we checked for mid-string zero terminators on all calls to 
>> `toStringz`, we would kill performance where mostly it isn't 
>> necessary
>
> I bet the speed test is effectively a tie if its reasonably 
> written

How do you "reasonably" write a linear search?

Sure you can make it a faster O(n), but it's still O(n). Whereas 
just "add on a 0 if not there" is an O(1) operation.

-Steve