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- From: ig25@fg20.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
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- Subject: Is fopen("fifo","a") legal?
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 13:30:39 -0800
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Submitted-by: ig25@fg20.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig)
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- Is it legal in a POSIX - conforming system to open a fifo for append?
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- In other words, would I have to stat() every file I wish to append to
- and see wether it is a fifo or not?
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- Thomas Koenig, ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet
- The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic
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