On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Andrew McGill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the risk of drifting off topic - is there ever a benefit in the shell > implementing a ">"-redirection with just O_TRUNC , rather than O_TRUNC | > O_APPEND ?
That is already the existing behaviour. The >> redirection operator is needed to get O_APPEND. > Does the output process ever need to seek() back in stdout? (If > this off topic, please feel free to flame me, and/or direct me to the correct > forum -- but I did freely send a bug report to the bash folks, even though > I'll bet they're not alone in omitting O_APPEND with O_TRUNC). It's not a bug; POSIX requires >> to use O_APPEND and > not to. See http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_07_02 James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
