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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: O_APPEND and flock()
To: abial@korin.warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki)
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 23:20:47 +0000 (GMT)
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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
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