sendfile doesn't work with O_APPEND
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82841
Alan <alan-qBU/[email protected]> changed:
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--- Comment #1 from Alan <alan-qBU/[email protected]> --- O_APPEND is not supported for sendfile().
It's documented in the splice() manual page but not for sendfile so I've moved this to a documentation bug
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--- Comment #2 from Jason Newton <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Alan from comment #1)
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O_APPENDis not supported forsendfile().It's documented in the
splice()manual page but not for sendfile so I've moved this to a documentation bug
OK so this quirk was not out in the open in documentation - before I opened this bug report I read a few years old discussion:
http://fixunix.com/kernel/543017-splice-vs-o_append.html
Most of what they're talking about is splice, not sendfile. They might use the same implementation but sendfile should be O_APPEND safe as there is no specifiable offset in the output filedescriptor. Is there a reason to not support it?
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--- Comment #3 from Alan <alan-qBU/[email protected]> --- sendfile is just a wrapper around splice()
Whether it could therefore support O_APPEND is a good question - but one that would need asking and discussing on the lists not here, and someone to contribute the patches to do so.
In the meantime we ought to get the man page fixed.
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Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> changed:
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Resolution|--- |CODE_FIX--- Comment #4 from Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]> --- I added the following text in ERRORS for sendfile(2).
EINVAL out_fd was has the O_APPEND flag set. This is not cur‐
rently supported by sendfile()
So, am closing this bug now.
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