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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 16:50:25 EST."
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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 14:58:49 -0700
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>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Cox <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com> writes:

    Russ> No, it's needed.  The behavior on FreeBSD really is what I
    Russ> said -- if you do a write with a file offset that is not the
    Russ> end of the file, the write fails.

This is almost certainly a bug. I'll verify what POSIX has to say
about this and get a bug report filed. What (exact) version of FreeBSD
did you observe this behaviour on?

--lyndon