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From: alexis@reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: the file with the empty name ""
Message-ID: <11464@reed.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 88 05:10:51 GMT
References: <2294@bucsb.UUCP> <659@sbsvax.UUCP> <1847@piraat.cs.vu.nl> <662@sbsvax.UUCP> <15196@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: alexis@reed.UUCP (Alexis Dimitriadis)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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> >If you do something like 'open ("", 1)', how can you tell what really
> >happens (short of looking in the kernel text)?
> 
> You cannot.  All you can tell are the effects.

Well, you *could* read a few blocks from the file you opened and see
what's in them.  (But we know the answer already :-)

Alexis Dimitriadis
alexis@reed.UUCP