Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:38:09 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Bug in open() function (?) |
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"J.C. Wren" <jcwren@jcwren.com> wrote: > > I was playing around today and found that if an existing file is opened with > O_TRUNC | O_RDONLY, the existing file is truncated.
Well that's fairly idiotic, isn't it?
The Open Group go on to say "The result of using O_TRUNC with O_RDONLY is undefined" which is also rather silly.
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