From: "Tom Demmer" <DEMMER AT brain1 DOT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de>
Organization:  Lehrstuhl Stroemungsmechanik, RUB
To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann), djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:          Mon, 29 Jul 1996 09:57:06 GMT-1
Subject:       Re: open() / _open() bug
Reply-to: Demmer AT LStM DOT Ruhr-Uni-Bochum DOT De
Message-ID: <3D88A8E73C5@brain1.lstm.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>


> > > 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.
> 
As Eli said, they are defined, so I wonder if the higher bits should 
be stripped at all. I'll check if plain DOS complains about them and 
report it to you.

Ciao
Tom

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