Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 23:20:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: abial@korin.warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O_APPEND and flock() Message-ID: <199710172320.QAA07270@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.971015113816.7513A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Oct 15, 97 11:47:25 am
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> The question is, is the write() call atomic? I.e., I want to avoid the > situation, when parts of each write() call would be interleaved with each > other. > > Reading man pages and BSD docs didn't make it clear for me. Write in units of the device block size or smaller. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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