Re: File open/create attibutes.

Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
Tue, 14 May 2002 18:20:15 +0200


"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:

|> Hello,
|>
|> If a file exists with attributes, 0644, and it is opened with truncate
|> and create with different attributes, it doesn't get those attributes.
|> It's only if the file doesn't exist at all that it gets created with
|> the new attributes.
|>
|> I think this is a bug.

POSIX disagrees:

O_CREAT If the file exists, this flag has no effect except as
noted under O_EXCL below.

Andreas.

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