Github user omalley commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/163
@prasanthj There are customers out there with millions of zero byte ORC
files in their Hive warehouses. We need to have the reader not throw when they
read them with Spark, etc. Rather than patch each context where Readers may be
created, I'd rather fix the core Reader.
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