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- From: sinclair@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Duncan Sinclair)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
- Subject: FIFOs vs. Stdio
- Message-ID: <Bu4FGF.8C2@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 19:57:51 GMT
- Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.
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- Is it reasonable to fopen a fifo with mode "a", and expect it to work?
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- As all writes to a FIFO are by nature appended, and you can't lseek at all
- away from here, surely this is a valid thing to do?
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- Anyhow, FYI, SunOs 4.1.1 doesn't allow it, because stdio gets
- an illegal seek as it tries to lseek to the end of the pipe.
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- I'd be interested in your thoughts.
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