On Dec 18, 2008, at 4:03 PM, ron minnich wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Russ Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
I would just seek to the end.
That's fine unless you have multiple
programs writing O_APPEND simultaneously,
in which case you are asking for trouble.
yep. The code in nfs clients to support O_APPEND is a wonder to
behold. A nicer combination of rubber bands and paper clips you never
did see.
Its fun, yes. But I believe this is more of a testament to the
statelessness of the NFS
plus the fact that the "end of file" is not a well defined offset
(unlike beginning of
the file).
Thanks,
Roman.
