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

[Leslie Mikesell]

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?

Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us