Re: splice vs O_APPEND

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 12:30:26 EST


Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> pwrite() for example honors O_APPEND and ignores the position, AFAICS.

If it does, then it violates POSIX (see
<http://www.opengroup.org/austin/docs/austin_325.txt>, where the
behavior of pwrite with O_APPEND is clarified).

Andreas.

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