From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c, 8l, and empty files
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:41:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aaafc130903031541u840c5cfna54888e18b302d99@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180903031537x562fbf05q9e51732bed40dd3@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:37 PM, andrey mirtchovski
<mirtchovski@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does it have any sense to create a 0 byte executable file?
>> Success or failure? Can you execute it?
>
> "Garbage-in, Garbage-out"
Or perhaps, since the user went to trouble of making sure the file
didn't exist and then creating the empty file, the compiler and linker
felt it would be rude if they didn't do something with it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-03 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 20:03 Enrique Soriano
2009-03-03 22:54 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-03 23:29 ` Enrique Soriano
2009-03-03 23:37 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-03 23:41 ` J.R. Mauro [this message]
2009-03-03 23:45 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-03 23:57 ` Uriel
2009-03-03 23:43 ` Anthony Sorace
2009-03-03 23:52 ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-04 11:56 ` Enrique Soriano
2009-03-04 15:54 ` Juan Céspedes
2009-03-04 12:25 ` Charles Forsyth
2009-03-04 2:16 ` Federico G. Benavento
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