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os: file current cursor is 0 when open file as append mode with exist file(size>0) #12710

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yuyi98 opened this issue Sep 22, 2015 · 6 comments
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os: file current cursor is 0 when open file as append mode with exist file(size>0) #12710

yuyi98 opened this issue Sep 22, 2015 · 6 comments
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yuyi98 commented Sep 22, 2015 

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    f, err := os.OpenFile("aaa.dat", os.O_WRONLY|os.O_APPEND, 0666)
    if err != nil {
        fmt.Println("Open aaa.dat failed")
        return
    }

    defer f.Close()

    aa, _ := f.Seek(0, os.SEEK_CUR)
    fmt.Println("cursor position : ", aa)
}

cursor position should be size of "aaa.dat", but it's 0.
@bradfitz bradfitz added this to the Go1.6 milestone Sep 22, 2015
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Which operating system do you see this on? I assume some Unix variant?

It's quite likely that this behavior is platform-specific.

Linux man pages say:

O_APPEND
The file is opened in append mode. Before each write(2), the file offset is positioned at the end of the file, as if with lseek(2). O_APPEND may lead to corrupted files on NFS file systems if more than one process appends data to a file at once. 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.

Go's docs merely say:

        O_APPEND int = syscall.O_APPEND // append data to the file when writing.

Perhaps we're missing some words somewhere. We should also verify that Unix, Windows, and Plan 9 are consistent.

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yuyi98 commented Sep 22, 2015

system: windows 7 64bit, go 1.5.1 amd64

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I ran an experiment in https://go-review.googlesource.com/14807

Unix and Windows return 0 for the seek position on an O_APPEND file. Plan 9 returns the actual value. I imagine we should change Plan 9 to match the behavior of the popular platforms. (cc @0intro)

And I guess we should just document the behavior on Unix and Windows. (cc @robpike)

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minux commented Sep 23, 2015 via email

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@minux, SGTM.

It's only a race if you ever called Write, right? But we can just say it's unspecified and leave it at that.

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CL https://golang.org/cl/14881 mentions this issue.

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