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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: bug with ufs file creation
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
References: <328@rook.ukc.ac.uk> <CD0AnI.1rM@taronga.com> <CD44wx.LHs@rex.uokhsc.edu> <27202e$7u@umd5.umd.edu>
Message-ID: <CDD909.603@taronga.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1993 22:55:06 GMT
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In article <27202e$7u@umd5.umd.edu>,
Mark Sienkiewicz <mark@roissy.umd.edu> wrote:
>You can't grant append-access, because nobody opens files for appending.

386BSD bonkers 1 % man open
...

           O_APPEND        append on each write

     Opening a file with O_APPEND set causes each write on the file to be ap-
     pended to the end.

...

Sure looks like it.