Re: O_APPEND, file locking...

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>]

>>>>> On Fri, 23 Jul 93 20:35:44 CES, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de> said:
|>  quick question: on what filesystems does O_APPEND (or fopen (.. "a"))
|>  work with > 1 processes writing to the same file?  i doubt it does on
|>  GEMDOSfs, but on others?  reason i ask is should i put locking code
|>  around simple one-line fprintfs to logfiles.. i would rather not :-)

It works with every filesystem, because MiNT translates it to
lseek(SEEK_END) + write, atomically.

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