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Exit Sign (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@piefed.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

One obvious use-case is to cause the file to get a new timestamp, which for example tools like make look at.