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From: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: read(2) won't move TK50 past tape file mark
Keywords: ultrix tk50 unix tapes
Message-ID: <189@larry.sal.wisc.edu>
Date: 24 May 89 22:41:29 GMT
References: <187@larry.sal.wisc.edu> <466@polyof.UUCP>
Reply-To: jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival)
Organization: Space Astronomy Laboratory
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In article <466@polyof.UUCP> john@polyof.UUCP ( John Buck ) writes:
>Attempting to read(2) past the EOF mark continues to generate "0" byte
>reads, as it should.

The mtio(4) section in the 4.3BSD manual says:

	"A zero byte count is returned when a tape mark is read,
	but another read will fetch the first record of the new tape file."

so I guess "should" has to have more of a context.
-- 
Jeff Percival (jwp@larry.sal.wisc.edu)