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Subject: Re: seeking into /dev/{null,zero}
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Andrew Duane <aduane@juniper.net> wrote:
> I thought seeking past EOF was valid; writing something creates a file with a hole in it. I always assumed that was standard semantics.

    That's with SET_HOLE/SET_DATA though, correct? If so, outside of
that functionality I would assume relatively standard POSIX semantics.
Thanks,
-Garrett