Erik Bray added the comment: >> 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(). I figured that workaround that seeks to the end on open was an attempt to normalize behavior between different systems, and seems to me like a reasonable compromise to support systems that somehow don't support append. But a better compromise I think would be to seek to the beginning of the file and modify fileio_write and friends to always seek to the end before a write if the file was opened in append mode. This would be more in line with the POSIX behavior. I have no idea on what systems O_APPEND isn't supported, but I figured they must exist because someone put an #ifdef in there once :) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18876> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
