Date: 7 Apr 1999 09:50:27 -0000 From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen <will@iki.fi> To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: aio_read Message-ID: <19990407095027.435.qmail@ns.oeno.com> In-Reply-To: <199904061701.KAA09326@apollo.backplane.com> (message from Matthew Dillon on Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:01:36 -0700 (PDT))
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> If it's a redirected output file you simply make it O_APPEND, at which > point the seek offset in the descriptor becomes irrelevant. As others have pointed out, O_APPEND is much newer than the offset-sharing behavior. It also doesn't fix things for inputs. Of course with buffering, it's hard for it to have sensible semantics, but for some commands, it does work and can even useful. While I doubt many scripts rely on such behavior, it does avoid inconsistencies between internal and external commands, as well as files, ttys and pipes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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