Will this screw up file size estimation on the file system? Will the filesystem overwrite everything past the first EOF character? How is this handled?
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Will this screw up file size estimation on the file system? Will the filesystem overwrite everything past the first EOF character? How is this handled?
In Unix there is no EOF character. It’s simply a concept, a value returned by
getcto signal “this is the end (beautiful friend)”.EOFis chosen so thatgetc(and friends) can’t return it in any other case.And about writing past the end of file, different filesystems do things differently.