Re: [gawk-stable] bug: fatal error when getline from directory

[John Cowan]

Paolo scripsit:

> POSIX 'text file' is any sequence of chars except for '\0', in 1+ lines
> shorter than LINE_MAX, which is OS/implementation-specific. So you may well
> have a 'text file' which isn't that 'human-readable' at all.

True, but that doesn't mean every file contains characters.

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