From: Björn Stenberg <bjorn_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 16:07:24 +0100

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

Received on 2002-11-08