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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:50:37 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: creat and open failing
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:31:17PM -0500, y2bismil AT engmail DOT uwaterloo DOT ca wrote:
>I got a question wrt to gcc and cygwin.  I'm not sure if this is the defined
>behaviour, but for some reason, the following code fails.  This is a test
>program which display the failure.  
>Running cygwin on windows 2000.  Compiling with mingw (no-cygwin option) 
>
>Basically, after creat...close...  the file is set to read only (check
>attributes under windows).  This causes the second to fail.  On the second run
>of the program, the creat fails as well.  Any idea why the file is being set to
>read only?  
>
>********************************************************
>#include <io.h>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include  <fcntl.h>
>
>int main()
>{
>   int handle;
>   handle= creat("hello.txt", O_WRONLY);
                               ^^^^^^^^

This isn't the correct argument for creat.  The second argument is
the mode, as in what you send to chmod (2).
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