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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: fopen ( ..., "a" ) --- how does the "a" work?
Message-ID: <1989Dec9.000805.1617@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 9 Dec 89 00:08:05 GMT
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In article <11775@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>On a single-user non-multitasking system, a better implementation would
>be to seek to the end only on the initial open, not for each write.

But what if the single-user non-multitasking system is networked to
a shared filesystem and you would like your log files to work?

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us