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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-02-02 03:25:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2006-02-02 03:25:41 +0000 |
| commit | bfe9ba67123ef8cc33db6925bfb337a805105588 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a97976520c112ec430bce96bb3239d0be04f3b5 | |
| parent | 04a57fff62771760f7e8aa0d8e6941d3dc59377e (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-bfe9ba67123ef8cc33db6925bfb337a805105588.tar.gz | |
Clarify distinction between "file creation flags" and
"file status flags".
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/open.2 | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man2/open.2 b/man2/open.2 index c46ae56651..a033414268 100644 --- a/man2/open.2 +++ b/man2/open.2 @@ -96,10 +96,24 @@ must include one of the following .BR O_RDONLY ", " O_WRONLY ", or " O_RDWR. These request opening the file read-only, write-only, or read/write, respectively. -In addition, zero or more of the following may be + +In addition, zero or more file creation flags and file status flags +can be .RI bitwise- or 'd in -.IR flags : +.IR flags . +The +.I file creation flags +are +.BR O_CREAT ", " O_EXCL ", " O_NOCTTY ", and " O_TRUNC . +The +.I file status flags +are all of the remaining flags listed below. +The distinction between these two groups of flags is that +the file status flags can be retrieved and (in some cases) +modified using +.BR fcntl (2). +The full list of file creation flags and file status flags is as follows: .TP .B O_APPEND The file is opened in append mode. Before each |