Re: Is fopen("fifo","a") legal?

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From: Chuck Karish
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:19

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Submitted-by: karish@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Chuck Karish)

In article <1halpvINN9fe@ftp.UU.NET> ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
(Thomas Koenig) writes:

>Is it legal in a POSIX - conforming system to open a fifo for append? 

I don't see why not.  Writes to a FIFO are always at
end-of-file, whether it's opened for "write" or for 
"append".

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