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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans wrote:
> POSIX says almost the same as the quote from www.opengroup.org in the
> sources: "A file system-specific [sic] preferred I/O block size for
> this object".  0 is wrong except possibly for /dev/null since it is
> a very bad I/O size.

Hahahaha!

What if the FS prefers you to not read or write the object?

8-) 8-)

-- Terry

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