Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

On which systems is O_APPEND not supported? It's part of the POSIX standard, 
and even Windows seems to have it.

> Whereas the behavior of O_APPEND causes an automatic seek to the end
> before any write().

True, but IIRC some systems seek on open() and some systems seek just before 
write().

Agreed about the "mode" attribute problem, though. And the BufferedWriter bug 
is truly embarassing, sorry :-(

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