With bash's read builtin it is possible to read from a file (e.g.
device-tree) until the first '\0' character:
IFS= read -r -d '' VARIABLE < file
In busybox ash the -d extension is also implemented, but checking the
read character for '\0' has to be performed after comparing with the
delimiter.
Signed-off-by: Christian Eggers <ceggers@arri.de>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>