Re: Minor tweaks to path handling (re-submit)

[Lars J. Aas]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 07:48:05PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
: >>>>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <address@hidden> writes:
: Lars> There is also the issue of always going through the file
: Lars> descriptor - not sending things directly to the file named
: Lars> config.log...
: 
: You are right, this is better.  But you seem to say it is needed?

I'm not sure, but I can imagine systems where the position indicator
of a file-descriptor stays the same even if it was opened in append
mode and the file is extended by another process.  It was Tim who
reported problems caused by it on DOS (DJGPP?).

  Lars J