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On Tue, 25 May 2004, Olaf Hering wrote:

>  On Tue, May 25, Richard B. Johnson wrote unrelated stuff:
>

It is not unrelated stuff. If you think it is, you will
come to an incorrect conclusion with your experiments.
As I stated, you are not actually communicating with a
device-file except for the initial open().

> did you actually try it?
>
[SNIPPED... unrelated access time information]

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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