writing zero bytes in bash

[Chuck R. Anderson]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:34:33AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> > what about
> >
> > > /proc/self/attr/fscreate
> >
> > ?
> 
> What is it about this thread that is generating the one-word emails?
> Your message doesn't contain anything I can interpret, I'm not sure if you are 
> trying to make a point or ask a question.

I think he meant "> /proc/self/attr/fscreate", but this doesn't appear 
to write either:

4841  open("/proc/self/attr/fscreate", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 3
4841  fcntl64(1, F_GETFD)               = 0
4841  fcntl64(1, F_DUPFD, 10)           = 10
4841  fcntl64(1, F_GETFD)               = 0
4841  fcntl64(10, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)  = 0
4841  dup2(3, 1)                        = 1
4841  close(3)                          = 0