>
> Hi everyone
>
> I am writing a application which requires to add new things to the end of a
> existing file. So I open the file in append mode. But once the file is opened
> in append mode when ever I write any data it always writes to the end of
> the file and not where the FILE_POINTER is positioned using LSEEK.
>
> Is this right shouldn't it be working like this i.e:
>
[SNIPPED]
man 2 open
O_APPEND
The file is opened in append mode. Initially, and
before each write, the file-pointer is positioned
at the end of the file, as if with lseek.
Things don't often mean what they seem to say. You can lseek for
various reads in a file opened for append. However, the explicit
definitition requires that any writes occur at the end of the file.
You need to open the file as O_RDWR if you want to do random read/writes.
As a feature, this allows you to make sparse files as well.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.13 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips).
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