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man/man3/open.3
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@ -38,9 +38,12 @@ says to close the file when an
or
.I execl
system call is made;
and
.B ORCLOSE
says to remove the file when it is closed (by everyone who has a copy of the file descriptor).
says to remove the file when it is closed (by everyone who has a copy of the file descriptor);
and
.B OAPPEND
says to open the file in append-only mode, so that writes
are always appended to the end of the file.
.I Open
fails if the file does not exist or the user does not have
permission to open it for the requested purpose
@ -145,3 +148,14 @@ allows the file descriptor to be reused.
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
These functions set
.IR errstr .
.SH BUGS
Not all functionality is supported on all systems.
.PP
The
.B DMAPPEND
bit is not supported on any systems.
.PP
The implementation of
.B ORCLOSE
is to unlink the file after opening it, causing problems
in programs that try to access the file by name before it is closed.