Thayne Harbaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Niels M�ller" wrote:
>
> > As far as I can see from the source, the file should
> > be opened in O_APPEND mode.
>
> Funny. It never appends for me - it always overwrites the old file.
> The plot thickens . . .
If so, the extra data is most likely previous contents of the file.
> > It would be interesting to find out how lsh writes the data. Do you
> > think you can truss it when this happens, and give me the information
> > calls for the right fd?
>
> I'm not sure I understand what you mean here.
Use truss (or strace, the name of that program varies) to find out
exactly how open() is called on the file (to see if the O_APPEND flag
is included), and the write() calls to see exactly what lsh writes to
it.
/Niels
