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Subject: Re: disk write testing
From: Björn Stenberg (bjorn_at_haxx.se)
Date: 2002-11-08


Greg Haerr wrote:
> I hadn't quite realized what a great job Linus did optimizing the
> routines for extremely fast sequential reading and writing

Actually that was my work. Not that it matters... :-)

> Do we want to make a distinction for
> the new write code so that creat() and open(...,O_WRONLY)
> act differently, that is, open(...,O_WRONLY) allows
> seeking and appending to end-of-file?

No. We want to always support seeking and appending, no matter how the file was opened. I'm adding that right now.

-- 
Björn



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