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Subject: Re: File open/create attibutes.
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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
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"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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