Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758697AbYJIQne (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:43:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754142AbYJIQnY (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:43:24 -0400 Received: from fxip-0047f.externet.hu ([88.209.222.127]:38151 "EHLO pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753335AbYJIQnX (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:43:23 -0400 To: schwab@suse.de CC: miklos@szeredi.hu, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: (message from Andreas Schwab on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:30:01 +0200) Subject: Re: splice vs O_APPEND References: Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:43:00 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 561 Lines: 16 On Thu, 09 Oct 2008, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Miklos Szeredi writes: > > > pwrite() for example honors O_APPEND and ignores the position, AFAICS. > > If it does, then it violates POSIX (see I checked and it does. Nobody seems to care though, not even the POSIX conformance checkers :) Miklos -- 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/