>>>>> "GW" == Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: GW> You're talking about adding a ridiculous amount of extra checking GW> and performance penalty to try to avoid users shooting themselves in GW> the foot *on Unix*.
I dunno... I thought it might be just reading a couple bytes from where the date is stored before reading a lot more bytes from where the data is stored. But what do I know.
