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On May 29 15:28, Eric Blake wrote:
> Eric Blake <ebb9 <at> byu.net> writes:
> 
> > Somehow, when the file size is huge, cygwin is not properly propogating that 
> an 
> > O_APPEND bit (0x9 in the flags printed from F_GETFL) means that the initial 
> > offset of fd 1 is the end of the file.  (And it would be nice if strace would 
> > show the initial lseek offset of all inherited fd's when spawning a process).
> 
> Actually, there is another cygwin bug.  POSIX requires that this assertion 
> succeed:
> 
> assert (0 == lseek (open("existing", O_WRONLY | O_APPEND), 0, SEEK_CUR));

Can you give me a pointer?


Thanks,
Corinna

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