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Good point. I'll edit my post to say that the C library guarantees that data shall not be overwritten.

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Re^3: open for append
by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 25, 2005 at 15:53 UTC
    the C library guarantees that data shall not be overwritten
    But it's not the C library either. It's the kernel. The C library doesn't care, and doesn't know that O_APPEND was used. It simply does the write(2) call, and because the open(1) call had O_APPEND, the kernel arranges for write-at-end in an atomic fashion.

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