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  1. Submitted-by: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)
  2.  
  3. In article <1halpvINN9fe@ftp.UU.NET> ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
  4. (Thomas Koenig) writes:
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  6. >Is it legal in a POSIX - conforming system to open a fifo for append? 
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  8. I don't see why not.  Writes to a FIFO are always at
  9. end-of-file, whether it's opened for "write" or for 
  10. "append".
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  13. Chuck Karish          karish@mindcraft.com
  14. (415) 323-9000 x117   karish@pangea.stanford.edu
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  16. Volume-Number: Volume 29, Number 89
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