4.2bsd eof flag in stdio

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> Article <6535 at brl-tgr.ARPA>, from henry at utzoo.uucp
+----------------
| > Here's an excerpt from the 4.2BSD man page for fread, V7 is identical:
| > 
| > DIAGNOSTICS
| >      Fread and fwrite return 0 upon end of file or error.
| 
| Not just a short count, mind you, but 0.

Which is wrong.  If you request 7 characters and it reads 4 before EOF,
you've either lost 4 characters or gotten 3 garbage characters, depending
on what fread returns and how your program deals with EOF.  Sounds to
me like fread is wrong from square one.

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