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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-29 11:31:22 -0500 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-29 14:54:27 -0500 |
| commit | a439142940e2b58c1655a9af1f91440e10c498ba (patch) | |
| tree | 84a94f180022f36fc010ad4358f91953c683310e /man2/open.2 | |
| parent | 2250b3eea518329452606abe0134c4908fd60a2d (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-a439142940e2b58c1655a9af1f91440e10c498ba.tar.gz | |
open.2: srcfix: add comments re NFS and O_APPEND
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diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2 index 24e9046e3d..1d0c91fe18 100644 --- a/man2/open.2 +++ b/man2/open.2 @@ -148,6 +148,9 @@ as if with .B O_APPEND may lead to corrupted files on NFS file systems if more than one process appends data to a file at once. +.\" For more background, see +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=453946 +.\" http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ This is because NFS does not support appending to a file, so the client kernel has to simulate it, which can't be done without a race condition. |