read(2) won't move TK50 past tape file mark

[Jeffrey W Percival]

In article <466 at polyof.UUCP> john at polyof.UUCP ( John Buck ) writes:
>Attempting to read(2) past the EOF mark continues to generate "0" byte
>reads, as it should.

The mtio(4) section in the 4.3BSD manual says:

	"A zero byte count is returned when a tape mark is read,
	but another read will fetch the first record of the new tape file."

so I guess "should" has to have more of a context.
-- 
Jeff Percival (jwp at larry.sal.wisc.edu)