From: bolo@cs.wisc.edu Subject: Re: Bug - O_CREAT 6 Dec 1996 22:48:04 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612070526.XAA12327.cygnus.gnu-win32@orca.cs.wisc.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: orca.cs.wisc.edu: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol Original-To: Tim Newsham Original-cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com In-reply-to: Tim Newsham's message of Fri, 06 Dec 1996 15:21:03 -1000. Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com > 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. | Joe Burger U of WI-Madison Computer Sciences| "Blessed are the Peacemakers" | "bolo" bolo@cs.wisc.edu uwvax!bolo | -- Jesus Christ, endorsing | http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bolo/ | Samuel Colt's Revolvers - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".