Re: IOS: modes for opening files

[Egeyar Bagcioglu]

Hi Jose

I thought about this problem. In short, two new things came out of it:
1) As Bruno hinted, I believe as strongly as possible that I need to 
abandon fopen and move to open. The limited fopen flags do not provide 
the variety that we are looking for. You can see that in the spreadsheet 
that I attach.
2) I have considered some alternative sets of flags too, but came back 
to what we currently have. The only exception is that I have strong 
doubts about supporting IOS_F_TRUNCATE flag. As far as I can see it only 
makes sense for files and I do not know what to make of it in other 
interfaces. It is not a very useful poke-y functionality, it just clears 
a file. Can we simply drop it? If not, I intend to reject it on other 
interfaces. Let me know what you think about this.

I will start the implementation early afternoon.

Cheers,
Ege

why we need to switch to open.ods
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