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Date: Tue,  3 Mar 2009 23:16:30 -0300
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From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c, 8l, and empty files
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I consider that a feature, specially when starting something new
I just touch the files I think I will need and put them in the mkfile

it just works!

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Enrique Soriano <esoriano@lsub.org> wrote:
> term% cd /tmp
> term% ls nothing.c
> ls: nothing.c: 'nothing.c' file does not exist
> term% touch nothing.c
> term% 8c -FVw nothing.c
> term% 8l -o nothing nothing.8
> term% echo $status
>
> term% ls -l nothing
> --rwxrwxr-x M 8 glenda glenda 0 Mar =C2=A03 21:49 nothing
> term% ./nothing
> ./nothing: exec header invalid
>
>
> Why does the loader work?
> Is there any reason to not report an error?
>
> Regards,
> Q
>
>



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