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From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" <gwyn@arl.army.mil>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fs/9auth for FreeBSD
Date: Mon,  2 Apr 2001 08:48:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AC4D76D.EC275C25@arl.army.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0103281725160.26500-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>

Alexander Viro wrote:
> PS: POSIX says nothing, since append-only is BSDism and POSIX is a
> codification of Missed'em'V bugs, so append-only is out of scope.

That is uncalled-for and inaccurate.  We put considerable effort
into accommodating *both* the BSD and USG variants of UNIX when
drawing up the (initial) POSIX specs.

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.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-02  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-28 21:50 Russ Cox
2001-03-28 21:58 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-03-28 22:23   ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-28 22:28     ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-28 22:56       ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-03-28 23:30         ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-03-28 23:35         ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-28 23:44           ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-03-29  0:20             ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-02  8:48       ` Douglas A. Gwyn [this message]
2001-04-02 10:04         ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-02 12:58           ` Boyd Roberts
2001-03-28 22:22 ` Alexander Viro
2001-04-02  8:49   ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-04-02 10:23     ` Alexander Viro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-02  9:28 Russ Cox
2001-03-28  3:46 Russ Cox
2001-03-28 19:26 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-03-28 19:35   ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-28 19:48     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-03-29  8:27   ` Boyd Roberts
2001-03-27 23:53 Lyndon Nerenberg
2001-03-28  0:32 ` Christopher Nielsen
2001-03-28 19:32   ` Lyndon Nerenberg

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