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From: jtsilla AT ccs DOT neu DOT edu (James Tsillas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Is this a bug with open() (V2).
Date: 18 Mar 1996 14:23:44 GMT
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Hi world,

I'm trying to create a file with the open system call and it appears to
succeed, returning a file descriptor greater than or equal to zero.
Errno is set to the "file doesn't exist" which appears to be normal. I
am using the CREAT flag and file gets created, etc. Now, it appears that
my file descriptor (returned from open) is 0. And (even more weird) when
I try to write to this file, the output goes to the terminal and the
file isn't written to. I recall that 0 was the standard fd for stdin in
POSIX.

Shouldn't open() return an unused fd? I wish I could give the precise
source but my source is on a different computer. One point to take note
of: I create the file as write only.

Is this a bug? If not, can I see a working example? If so, is there a
workaround? Nothing in the FAQ.

ciao,
-Jim.
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