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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: File Access Times on Masscomp
Message-ID: <5992@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 06:04:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 16 06:04:12 1987
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <21145@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
-One can probably argue this either way; my inclination is
-to consider the S5 behavior to be closer to what is specified here
-than the V7 behavior, given that if the file contains no data it is
-impossible to access its data.

To me, it seems trivial to access all its data!
This is the old "zero-sized object" issue.