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From: "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9pfuse and O_APPEND
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:03:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13426df10812181603l56910094m7165f27179047a3a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd6fe68a0812181557u28bf4c9drc1bdb417d6e4d1ed@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com> wrote:
> I would just seek to the end.
> That's fine unless you have multiple
> programs writing O_APPEND simultaneously,
> in which case you are asking for trouble.
>

yep. The code in nfs clients to support O_APPEND is a wonder to
behold. A nicer combination of rubber bands and paper clips you never
did see.

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-19  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-18 23:34 Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-18 23:57 ` Russ Cox
2008-12-19  0:03   ` ron minnich [this message]
2008-12-19  3:06     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19  3:26       ` ron minnich
2008-12-19  3:59         ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19 16:44           ` ron minnich
2008-12-19 19:21             ` Anthony Sorace
2008-12-19 19:31               ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-19 19:41               ` ron minnich
2008-12-19 19:59             ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19 20:06               ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-19 20:18               ` Charles Forsyth
2008-12-21  5:08                 ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-12-19  3:03   ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19  3:43     ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-19  3:54       ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19  4:13         ` geoff
2008-12-19  8:23           ` Russ Cox
2008-12-19 19:49             ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19 19:56               ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-19 20:10                 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-19 20:22                   ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-19 20:02               ` ron minnich
2008-12-19 14:21           ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-19 21:00 ` ron minnich
2008-12-19 21:32   ` Charles Forsyth
2008-12-19 21:29     ` ron minnich
2008-12-21  5:05   ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-12-21 14:45     ` erik quanstrom
2008-12-22 10:02       ` roger peppe
2008-12-25  6:04       ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-12-25  6:33         ` erik quanstrom

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