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Subject[OFFTOPIC] Reading empty file (was: Re: /dev/full)
Quoting Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl):

> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Johnny_Teve=DFen?= <j.tevessen@gmx.net> said:

mmh.. nice. 8)

> > Well, that's actually what I use it for: To have a "file" that gives you
> > 0 bytes and then EOF when read from.
>
> And /dev/null?

/dev/full sounded more logical to me, so I tried this one first. It worked.
Reading from /dev/null sounds.. more strange.

johnny
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