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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: fopen ( ..., "a" ) --- how does the "a" work?
Message-ID: <11785@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 11 Dec 89 04:16:54 GMT
References: <3250@hub.UUCP> <1989Dec7.130813.4992@virtech.uucp> <11775@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1989Dec9.000805.1617@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1989Dec9.000805.1617@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
-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?

Suggest you look up "system" in a decent engineering textbook.
You described a system that doesn't fit my qualifiers.