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From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: shell file descriptor programming (was: Unlinked temp files)
Message-ID: <133@minya.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 19:08:08 GMT
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> P.S. Don't try lseek(0, -1L, 0) from your login shell
>      (but you will...).

You're right; I did, and as near as I can tell, it was a total no-op.  
Was it supposed to do something interesting and/or amusing?  Does it
do something on some systems?  I'd expect it to just return -1, which
is what it did.

This is a reasonably generic Sys/V.2 system, BTW.

-- 
John Chambers <{adelie,ima,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)

[Any errors in the above are due to failures in the logic of the keyboard,
not in the fingers that did the typing.]