Writing to A NON-Existing File in \"C\"

[Matt Landau]

In comp.unix.wizards (<12860 at brl-adm.ARPA>), drears at ardec.arpa (Dennis G. Rears 
(FSAC)) writes:
>Here is sample code that will allow you to do this. It will exit
>if it can't open for appending any file.  If it can not stat the
>file it assumes it doesn't exist.  You can be fancy and check errno
>though.

>#define NULL	  "/dev/null/"

Probably want to pick another name for /dev/null, tho... :-)
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