Reading Until EOF

[Ben Finney]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:10:08 GMT, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> But it *is* exceptional behavior for the file read to fail.  The
> normal behavior is for the call to succeed, right?

No, it is a normal result for the call to succeed, and it is a normal
result for end of file to be reached.  The existence of one normal
result does not make all others exceptional.

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