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From: Alexander Viro <viro@mat...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9fs/9auth for FreeBSD 
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 17:28:06 -0500 (EST)



[I wrote]
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > This is almost certainly a bug. I'll verify what POSIX has to say
> > about this and get a bug report filed. What (exact) version of FreeBSD
> > did you observe this behaviour on?
> 
> See ufs/ufs/ufs_readwrite.c and grep for APPEND. It's present in -STABLE.

PS: POSIX says nothing, since append-only is BSDism and POSIX is a
codification of Missed'em'V bugs, so append-only is out of scope.