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From: Enrique Soriano <esoriano@lsub.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 8c, 8l, and empty files
Date: Wed,  4 Mar 2009 00:29:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D6CBA1F8-087E-48BD-9A2A-F25C15948B1B@lsub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14ec7b180903031454q70b2493bha58deefc2de53f8@mail.gmail.com>

On Mar 3, 2009, at 11:54 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote:

> if nobody replies to your email, would you report an error?
>
> or, if you prefer:
>
> if a linker has nothing to link (in the forest), should everybody
> hear about it?
>
> :)
>

Commands are expected to be loud on errors and silent
on success.

Does it have any sense to create a 0 byte executable file?
Success or failure? Can you execute it?


Q






  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-03 23:29 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 [this message]
2009-03-03 23:37     ` andrey mirtchovski
2009-03-03 23:41       ` J.R. Mauro
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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