fopen ( ..., "a" ) --- how does the "a" work?

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <11785 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>-In article <11775 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>->On a single-user non-multitasking system, a better implementation would
>->be to seek to the end only on the initial open, not for each write.
>-But what if the single-user non-multitasking system is networked to
>-a shared filesystem and you would like your log files to work?

>Suggest you look up "system" in a decent engineering textbook.
>You described a system that doesn't fit my qualifiers.


I fail to see how providing each user-level process with its own CPU
and i/o facilities would break anyone's concept of a "system".  Do
you mean that all filesystem clients and servers must maintain state
information to be worthy of being called a "system"?


Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us