write to the same file from multiple processes at the same time?

[Peter Hansen]

Christopher Weimann wrote:
> On 05/27/2005-06:02PM, Peter Hansen wrote:
> 
>>Hmm... just tried it: you're right!  On the other hand, the results were 
>>unacceptable: each process has a separate file pointer, so it appears 
>>whichever one writes first will have its output overwritten by the 
>>second process.
> 
> Did you open the files for 'append' ? 

Nope.  I suppose that would be a rational thing to do for log files, 
wouldn't it?  I wonder what happens when one does that...

-Peter