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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: bug with ufs file creation
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
References: <CD44wx.LHs@rex.uokhsc.edu> <27202e$7u@umd5.umd.edu> <CDD909.603@taronga.com> <277hfr$ka1@umd5.umd.edu>
Message-ID: <CDEp96.KAt@kithrup.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 17:43:39 GMT
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In article <277hfr$ka1@umd5.umd.edu> mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes:
>I didn't say you can't do it.  I said nobody does it.

Try doing

	cd /usr/src
	find . -name '*.c' -print | xargs egrep 'O_APPEND|fopen.*"a'

before you make that claim.  There are at least a dozen programs in the
386bsd distribution that use append mode.