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));
which is currently not the case on small files. The file position is only
moved as part of the subsequent write()s.
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Eric Blake
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