is 0 bytes read EOF ?

abachus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all,

I have a quick question :
When reading from a handle, with say sysread(), if the call returns 0 bytes read, is this a reliable indication that the handle pointer (for want of better terminology) is at EOF ?

many thanks,

Isaac.

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