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by 0x0
2970 days ago
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> Just like ending files on ctrl-Z (yes, it is End-Of-File, but filesystems know where the end of the file is already) Very old filesystems didn't track file sizes in bytes, just blocks, so a literal EOF byte was needed to know where to stop reading in the middle of the last block of 128 bytes or so. |
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