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Subject: Re: [9fans] echo -n
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 05:24:02 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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> But then, this goes against the convention that zero-length read means
> eof. This reminds me of the discussion about white space in file names.
> File names may have white space in their names, but that makes
> it hard (despite quoting) to program using file names as different tokens.

It seems to me, with Joel's rider that this may be only of academic
value, that we make a strange exception for write(X, "\4", 1) to
/dev/cons and we screw up a whole lot of logic in the process.

++L