From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4ad709400d63d68d2bce5b1219d1f1f2@vitanuova.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] factotum & invalid entries Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:10:01 +0000 From: rog@vitanuova.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0563a30c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > I never noticed a difference with factotum, although rog suggests > there was. not quite. the man page used to say: : If the offset of the write is zero, the key is added at the beginning : of factotum's list; otherwise, it is added to the end. this would have meant that there was a difference between '>' and '>>' *if* the length of the ctl file had been greater than zero (all '>>' does is set the offset to the length returned from stat). this would have been an easy fix, if anyone had cared.