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Hello,

----- "m0n0" <ole@monochrom.net> a écrit :
> But that doesn't explain why this virtual file shouldn't be opened by
> qed.
> Of course, writing to the file should fail... But reading it, should
> be OK.

That's because the file appear to have a size of 0 bytes.

Qed uses this information, while cat ignore it and tries to read datas from the file anyway (and succeed in this specific case).

Regards,

Xavier