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Re: [Spam?]Re: problem concating (>>) to a large file
On May 29 15:28, Eric Blake wrote:
> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
>
> > Somehow, when the file size is huge, cygwin is not properly propogating that
> an
> > O_APPEND bit (0x9 in the flags printed from F_GETFL) means that the initial
> > offset of fd 1 is the end of the file. (And it would be nice if strace would
> > show the initial lseek offset of all inherited fd's when spawning a process).
>
> Actually, there is another cygwin bug. POSIX requires that this assertion
> succeed:
>
> assert (0 == lseek (open("existing", O_WRONLY | O_APPEND), 0, SEEK_CUR));
Can you give me a pointer?
Thanks,
Corinna
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