From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <9607250457.AA11737@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: open() / _open() bug
To: dj AT delorie DOT com (DJ Delorie)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:57:17 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: Demmer AT LStM DOT Ruhr-Uni-Bochum DOT De, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <199607240340.XAA26870@delorie.com> from "DJ Delorie" at Jul 23, 96 11:40:42 pm
Content-Type: text

> > The higher bits of omode are masked out before a possibly existing 
> 
> > !     r.x.bx = oflag & 0xff; /* :TOM: new open() doesn't mask out upper bits,
> > !                            ** so we have to do it here.
> > !                            */
> 
> Charles - what does Win95 expect in BH?  Can we just leave it
> unmasked, or will the spare bits we use confuse it?

I can't find my LFN docs right now (sigh) but I do know that additional bits
were defined.  Which ones will have to wait a bit til I can find the DOCS.