Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759835AbYJIQaW (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:30:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754140AbYJIQaI (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:30:08 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:41166 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750987AbYJIQaG (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:30:06 -0400 From: Andreas Schwab To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: splice vs O_APPEND References: X-Yow: I'm wet! I'm wild! Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:30:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Miklos Szeredi's message of "Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:04:10 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 759 Lines: 20 Miklos Szeredi writes: > pwrite() for example honors O_APPEND and ignores the position, AFAICS. If it does, then it violates POSIX (see , where the behavior of pwrite with O_APPEND is clarified). Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra?e 5, 90409 N?rnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/