Re: Bug in open() function (?)

Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org)
Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:38:09 -0700

"J.C. Wren" <jcwren@jcwren.com> wrote:
>
> I was playing around today and found that if an existing file is opened with
> O_TRUNC | O_RDONLY, the existing file is truncated.

Well that's fairly idiotic, isn't it?

The Open Group go on to say "The result of using O_TRUNC with O_RDONLY is
undefined" which is also rather silly.

I'd be inclined to leave it as-is, really.
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