From:	bolo AT cs DOT wisc DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Bug - O_CREAT
6 Dec 1996 22:48:04 -0800 :
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In-reply-to:	Tim Newsham's message of Fri, 06 Dec 1996 15:21:03 -1000.
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>     Stumbled across a problem in cygwin32.  The
> open function does not behave as unix' open.  In
> particular if an O_CREAT flag is passed and the file
> already exists, the file is truncated to zero length.
> The file should not be truncated as the O_TRUNC flag
> was not specified.  As a test:

I recently submitted a fix for this problem.  Hopefully it will make
b17.

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