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From: hutch@sdcsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: concurrent write(2) calls write bad data to file
Message-ID: <2841@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
Date: Wed, 11-Mar-87 13:51:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 11 13:51:19 1987
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Reply-To: hutch@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Jim Hutchison)
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I presume O_APPEND on open?  If not, then life will get ugly.  O_APPEND
will make things *even* work for multiple things writing to the same
file, or atleast it has worked for me so far.

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    Jim Hutchison   		UUCP:	{dcdwest,ucbvax}!sdcsvax!hutch
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