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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fs/9auth for FreeBSD
Date: Mon,  2 Apr 2001 08:48:38 +0000
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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.