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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fs/9auth for FreeBSD 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:35:00 EST."
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 12:48:19 -0700
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>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> writes:

    Alexander> In case of Linux append-only is "all writes are treated
    Alexander> as appends" (see mm/filemap.c::generic_file_write()),
    Alexander> so no wanking with O_APPEND on subsequent open() is
    Alexander> needed,

O_APPEND probably isn't needed on BSD kernels, either. That was me
being paranoid based on the comment that writes didn't always get
treated as appends.

--lyndon