[LCP]creating files with open()

[Bill Rausch]

At 7:47 PM +0930 9/29/01, Andy Zivkovic wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to open/create a file if it doesn't exist, then write to it,
>however writes are failing. Additionally, the permissions on the file is
>really strange. On linux (home) and windows (home) the function I've copied
>below creates the file, but the write fails, and the close succeeds. On
>Solaris (uni) the open fails.
>
>Is there anything immediately obvious with my program?
>
>   file = open("file.txt", O_CREAT|O_EXCL);

You need the third parameter on the open call when creating a new file.

>
>

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