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From: Enrique Soriano <esoriano@lsub.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Date: Tue,  3 Mar 2009 21:03:52 +0100
Subject: [9fans] 8c, 8l, and empty files
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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  3 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