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From: bzs@bu-cs.bu.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: /bin/test and stat(2)
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Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 15:04:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 27 15:04:20 1987
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The issue is whether a string containing nothing indicates your
program has nothing to worry about.

This might seem like much ado about nothing but some argue that
nothing gained might be nothing lost, particularly when deleting
directories with shell scripts which have variables containing
nothing.

Put another way (for the backward-compatability fanatics), is nothing
sacred?

Perhaps this explains nothing. It certainly is neither the first or
last time this list has seen arguments about nothing.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University

(adapted loosely from an entry in some Encyplopedia of Philosophy on
"nothing".)