From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: Library 4.1 bug/feature? fopen("fifo","a") fails
Date: 9 Jan 1993 00:39:21 GMT
hlu@luke.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) writes:
> It should be said "reverse what was done to iostream". I believe
> fopen ("foo", "a") means open "foo" and set r/w pointer at the
> end of the file.
It did in V7, but System III and System V (and SVID) say it should use
O_APPEND instead. I don't know what POSIX has to say about it.
++Brandon