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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!ig25
  2. From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  4. Subject: Library 4.1 bug/feature?  fopen("fifo","a") fails
  5. Date: 7 Jan 1993 09:10:46 GMT
  6. Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
  7. Lines: 8
  8. Distribution: world
  9. Message-ID: <1igs2mINNdpp@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
  10. Reply-To: ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
  11. NNTP-Posting-Host: fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
  12.  
  13. Is it a bug or a feature that fopen("fifo","a"), where "fifo" is a named
  14. pipe, fails with an 'illegal lseek' in the 4.1 version of the library?
  15. The opinion on comp.std.unix seems to be that there should be no
  16. problem...
  17. -- 
  18. Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet
  19. The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
  20. diagram.
  21.