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@@ -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.