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Subject: Re: concurrent write(2) calls write bad data to file
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>I presume O_APPEND on open?

Or when the program starts; turning on O_APPEND with "fcntl" does the
same job, and is the only way to do it if you're writing to the
standard output (since you aren't the one who opened it).  Yes,
that's what I meant by "forced-append mode".