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+// Mgmt
+// Copyright (C) 2013-2024+ James Shubin and the project contributors
+// Written by James Shubin <james@shubin.ca> and the project contributors
+//
+// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+// GNU General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+// along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+//
+// Additional permission under GNU GPL version 3 section 7
+//
+// If you modify this program, or any covered work, by linking or combining it
+// with embedded mcl code and modules (and that the embedded mcl code and
+// modules which link with this program, contain a copy of their source code in
+// the authoritative form) containing parts covered by the terms of any other
+// license, the licensors of this program grant you additional permission to
+// convey the resulting work. Furthermore, the licensors of this program grant
+// the original author, James Shubin, additional permission to update this
+// additional permission if he deems it necessary to achieve the goals of this
+// additional permission.
+
+package util
+
+import (
+	"os"
+)
+
+// AppendFile writes data to the named file, creating it if necessary. If it
+// already exists, append this data to it. If the file does not exist,
+// AppendFile creates it with permissions perm (before umask); otherwise
+// AppendFile appends to it without changing permissions. Since AppendFile
+// requires multiple system calls to complete, a failure mid-operation can leave
+// the file in a partially written state. This is based on the golang stdlib
+// os.WriteFile method.
+func AppendFile(name string, data []byte, perm os.FileMode) error {
+	f, err := os.OpenFile(name, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE|os.O_APPEND, perm)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	_, err = f.Write(data)
+	if err1 := f.Close(); err1 != nil && err == nil {
+		err = err1
+	}
+	return err
+}