the file with the empty name ""

Alexis Dimitriadis alexis at reed.UUCP
Sat Dec 31 15:10:51 AEST 1988


> >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 at reed.UUCP



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