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- From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Library 4.1 bug/feature? fopen("fifo","a") fails
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- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 19:39:21 EST
- References: <1993Jan8.072323.20672@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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- hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
- > It should be said "reverse what was done to iostream". I believe
- > fopen ("foo", "a") means open "foo" and set r/w pointer at the
- > end of the file.
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- It did in V7, but System III and System V (and SVID) say it should use
- O_APPEND instead. I don't know what POSIX has to say about it.
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