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From: ark@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: a question on open() and lseek()
Message-ID: <5307@alice.uUCp>
Date: Mon, 14-Apr-86 15:45:37 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 14 15:45:37 1986
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If you open a file saying O_APPEND, you can only write the
file at the end.  Thus, if you intended later to seek into
the middle somewhere and write, you're out of luck.