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- Subject: O_APPEND, file locking...
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 20:35:44 CES
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- Message-Id: <9307231835.AA00268@jelal.north.de>
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- quick question: on what filesystems does O_APPEND (or fopen (.. "a"))
- work with > 1 processes writing to the same file? i doubt it does on
- GEMDOSfs, but on others? reason i ask is should i put locking code
- around simple one-line fprintfs to logfiles.. i would rather not :-)
-
- i also noticed that flock etc don't use F_SETLKW, is there a deeper
- reason?
-
- (i'm just preparing an `update' for the old hacked-up smail 2.5 that
- some of use are still using here... works quite well with elm and
- taylor uucp on MiNT now btw.)
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