From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Sun Dec 28 04:46:40 2008
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D64106564A
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:46:40 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from mmitar@gmail.com)
Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.247])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF5E8FC13
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:46:39 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from mmitar@gmail.com)
Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c2so1654226anc.13
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:46:39 -0800 (PST)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
	h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to
	:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type
	:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references;
	bh=YaatuWISR0+yvWawgjHZ99pRRySFL0pYDjCudEjp5eY=;
	b=nMtMZHJiJnGdFs7nS+FVWOiqs91dL6fetwZasOBH0Sm4JIy/uNnAgd6ZFLBQrv5X2Q
	L/SfgZFq+VtrpJNpNQKeeq8OaM837taVnJTz8tyuRzD467A+euCJ9wNqOKtxkfbwyo6C
	yguKmsOiWV0S4gQ8X/LQCk87snHIo8U1xFTnQ=
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma;
	h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version
	:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition
	:references;
	b=yFTgdbSaP+h6+B78GL5M1CiWtaidGD0FJyjztPQqeqPapyJ5SQN8fJ/9vvPqwp1gSP
	9A1nDo8hg9QszkSDmQcm3EhyhaVPanY4h5+cdyRvdTrIk33DYTDcpMYrvxxYvifbVsbc
	LdcINTE5A8r1V5UPMC7A8A67xjcYHSGOx69+0=
Received: by 10.100.140.20 with SMTP id n20mr7054194and.135.1230439599289;
	Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:46:39 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.100.6.8 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:46:39 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <f63c4b2d0812272046x3977f7d6q7fb1305164db973b@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:46:39 +0100
From: Mitar <mmitar@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <200812271910.43793.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
References: <f63c4b2d0812271246u18a881e6j87e0054c24f4661a@mail.gmail.com>
	<200812271517.46409.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
	<f63c4b2d0812271916l180c6c9bt9678cebc8f808587@mail.gmail.com>
	<200812271910.43793.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
Subject: Re: Open with O_APPEND fails
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:46:40 -0000

Hi!

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 5:10 AM, Mel
<fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote:
> open(2) will succeed but write(2) will fail with EBADF as documented (and I
> verified this behavior). Still no EACCES as you and the bugreporter are
> seeing.

Where is documented that write would fail if file is opened only with
O_APPEND? Just O_APPEND should also open file for writing as appending
is also writing. It cannot be used without "write" semantics so file
has to be open also for writing.


Mitar