Re: Specifying a mode to open when O_CREAT is used

[Egeyar Bagcioglu]

> open(2) says that a third argument `mode' is to be provided to `open'
> when O_CREAT is specified in the flags.
>
> The specified mode is then combined with the umask to mount the
> permissions for the newly created file (for future accesses).  Right now
> these permissions are none.
>
> So we have to specify a set of reasonable permissions.
>
> What about this:
>
>    open (handler, flags_for_open,
>          S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
>
>
> Note that the `mode' third argument to `open' is ignored if O_CREAT is
> not in `flags'.
>
> WDYT?

I did not check the permissions, indeed. My apologies.
I pushed the change you suggested to both master and maint/poke-1.

Regards
Ege