Bill Jonas on Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:50:07 -0400


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Re: file system shenanigans (was: Re: [PLUG] ELF Init section)


On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 06:19:37AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:41:26PM +0000, qumak wrote:
> > anyone know exactly what that is?  would i be safe to assume that it means 
> > EOF?
> 
> 0xA == '\n' is the LF that echo emits.

The kernel itself returns EOF (^D on UNIX) when an attempt is made to
read the 6th block.

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