Feb. 25, 2002
11:03 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 09:50:39AM +0000, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote:
Actually, "a" mode is a bad idea, since according to the docs has inconsistent behaviour: "on *some* Unix systems means that *all* writes append to the end of the file, regardless of the current seek position)."
I considered that, but when would a log file ever want to do otherwise? I'd be interested to know what a portable way to append to a file is, though. -Andrew.