Posted-From: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: creat doesn't use proper default filetype 
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 07:54:44 -0400
From: "Daryl K. Baker" <dkb AT nmc42 DOT mitre DOT org>


In his response michaels AT vsl DOT com DOT AU (Michael Snoswell) notes:
>>gcc is meant to open files in binary mode by default, which is what unix all
>>compilers do. Text mode is the default for DOS compilers :-)

No, the djgpp docs clearly indicate the default is text mode. 
I can specify the default behavior of
open with the _fmode global varable, create does not honor this flag and
only creates binary files. 

A typical man page for creat says:

 This interface is made obsolete by open(2V), since,

          creat(path, mode);

     is equivalent to

          open(path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, mode);


However in the source to the djgpp libraies creat is implemented by a call
to an assembler routine. (I lost energy at this point to trace it any
further).  A revised creat.s could be changed to creat.c with the above
call to open.

Daryl
dkb AT mitre DOT org