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

[Chris Torek]

In article <895 at hsi86.hsi.UUCP> stevens at hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) writes:
>... Interesting, however, is that the 4.3BSD source differs.  It does
>an lseek to the EOF when fopen is called, and that's it.  4.3 does
>have an O_APPEND option to open, but it doesn't appear to be used.

This is scheduled to change (to match the wording in the ANSI standard).
I also wrote code to assert FAPPEND mode on fdopen(fd, "a").  This is a
bit nastier, but would seem to be required for reasons of sanity.  I do
not, however, clear FAPPEND on other fdopen calls.

What does SysV do?  What does the SVID say?
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