Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 07:53:02 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Martin Stromberg wrote:

> On the status page there's a bug on _createnew:
> _creatnew does not honour the flags passed to it - it always opens it
> read-write mode 
> 
> Are you aware of that anamoly is actually documented in its info page.
> 
> Is it really necessary to do anything?

I think the original thought was to use the flags accepted by the LFN 
version of _creatnew.  It's a pity we don't use them if that's possible.

I do agree that this is not high priority, given the available resources.