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Date: Tue,  3 Mar 2009 18:41:02 -0500
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c, 8l, and empty files
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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?