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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fs/9auth for FreeBSD
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Date: Mon,  2 Apr 2001 05:28:01 -0400
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  O_APPEND was certainly included in the 1988 IEEE 1003.1 (POSIX)
  specification; it's defined in <fcntl.h> and means that the file
  offset is to be set to the end of the file prior to each write.

This may be true but O_APPEND != append-only, which
is what Viro was talking about.  O_APPEND came up only
as a workaround to the BSD append-only semantics.

Russ