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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 18:03:49 -0400
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Subject: Re: enhancements to fcntl.c
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> > Note that changes to the access mode (O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, O_RDWR)
> > are ignored to obey the online Unix spec.
> 
> Yes, Posix says only O_APPEND and O_NONBLOCK can be 
changed. 

From looking over the source and the interrupt list, I don't think even 
O_APPEND can be set with F_SETFL since it's only used when the file 
is open and it isn't stored in the SFT. About the only thing I can see 
doing when O_APPEND is given in the argument is to seek to EOF.

Mark

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