write(2) man page

2013-02-22 Thread Sachidananda
Hi, When a file is open(2)ed with O_APPEND flag, write(2) seeks to the end of file before writing. We are missing this in the man page. If this is a valid point to note, I will send a patch to the man page. -sac

Re: write(2) man page

2013-02-23 Thread Sachidananda
Ted, On Saturday 23 February 2013 12:22 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:07, Sachidananda wrote: Hi, When a file is open(2)ed with O_APPEND flag, write(2) seeks to the end of file before writing. We are missing this in the man page. If this is a valid point to note, I

Re: write(2) man page

2013-02-24 Thread Sachidananda
Ted, On Sunday 24 February 2013 10:10 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 09:12, Sachidananda wrote: Also, for the record, it's open that seeks to the end. You can open a file with O_APPEND and seek back to the beginning, and write will not seek to the end again. My observation

Re: ls -l behavior on directories without execute permission

2013-03-07 Thread Sachidananda
People any thought on this, whether if this is valid issue enough to consider at all? On Wednesday 06 March 2013 07:03 PM, sachidananda urs wrote: Hi, When ls -l is run on a directory which has no execute permissions, ls fails but the return value is 0. bash-4.2$ ls -ld /tmp/foo/ drw-r-xr-x

Re: write(2) man page

2013-03-04 Thread Sachidananda Urs
On 02/24/2013 05:34 PM, Sachidananda wrote: Ted, On Sunday 24 February 2013 10:10 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 09:12, Sachidananda wrote: Also, for the record, it's open that seeks to the end. You can open a file with O_APPEND and seek back to the beginning, and write

ls -l behavior on directories without execute permission

2013-03-06 Thread sachidananda urs
Hi, When ls -l is run on a directory which has no execute permissions, ls fails but the return value is 0. bash-4.2$ ls -ld /tmp/foo/ drw-r-xr-x 3 sac wheel 512 Mar 6 18:11 /tmp/foo/ bash-4.2$ ls -l /tmp/foo/ bash-4.2$ echo $? 0 bash-4.2$ I see in the traverse function: