Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:32:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Eric Fagan <sef@Kithrup.COM> To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/4550 Message-ID: <199709160732.AAA28609@kithrup.com>
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In article <199709160639.QAA20844.kithrup.freebsd.bugs@godzilla.zeta.org.au> you write: >>The size is intentionally 0. >The bug is that "regular" files are irregular. If csd/bsd files were handled on a per-filesystem basis, I would have made the pseudofiles that. Or possibly named pipes. But they aren't, so I couldn't do that. At some point, it may be worthwhile adding a new filetype -- "pseudofile". Not quite a normal file, not quite a pipe or csd or bsd file. But, for now, they need to remain normal files with a zero length. Note that any program which assumes that a file doesn't change length while it's being read (or written ;)) should probably be considered broken. I believe ftp is one of these; so is rcp.
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