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Re: [ts-7000] Re: VFAT on an SD Card

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: VFAT on an SD Card
From: Jim Jackson <>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:59:10 +0100 (BST)


On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Frank Pagliughi wrote:

> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I believe I found another thing. Several applications in my system are
> trying to write log messages to a single text file on the SD Card, and
> are each using the O_APPEND option to the open() function to assure
> atomic writes to the end of the file. As in:
>   int fd = open(filName, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_APPEND, 0644);

Why not use the syslog functions, and run syslogd to serialise the
logging?

>
> Never mind guaranteed atomic or non-atomic operation. The file doesn't
> even get created on the card if it's formatted with VFAT!
>
> Does this make sense to anyone?
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
>


 
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