Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:20:15 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:40:41 -0500
> 
> We need a flag from somewhere, so another way would be to define a flag to be 
> used with '__file_handle_modes' and use it in place of the FILE_DESC_ZERO_* 
> flag.

That sounds like more work for you (since the code which uses
__fd_properties[] will have to be rewritten), but I don't see any
advantages in using __file_handle_modes that would justify that.

So I still tend to like better the alternative where the properties
are created in lseek.