[PATCH 1/2] Move offset to end of file when fdopen is in "a" mode (#16532)
Siddhesh Poyarekar
siddhesh@redhat.com
Tue Feb 11 10:26:00 GMT 2014
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:22:31AM +0100, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> > It shouldn't make a difference. The only reason to seek to the end is
> > to record the offset of the file end into the FILE object. If an
> > lseek moves it elsewhere, we don't care. Data will be appended to the
> > end of the file in any case since we add an O_APPEND to the fd.
> >
> How does that handle a+ mode? A offset should be at start but you need
> to write at end.
See Patch 2/2. That's where a+ is fixed.
Siddhesh
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