Re: [PATCH] 0-byte read()/write() behaviour

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Hi!

> > I suspect SUS only talks about regular files.
>
> As I'm reading it, they're talking about every read() call, even those with
> an invalid fd.

I'd say _they_ are broken in such case. read(invalid_fd, NULL, 0)
should give error, not pretend success.

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