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From: pdg@ihdev.ATT.COM (Joe Isuzu)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Function prototypes versus open()
Message-ID: <1466@ihdev.ATT.COM>
Date: Mon, 29-Jun-87 13:33:23 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 29 13:33:23 1987
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In article <821@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) writes:
>Well, I don't know about the AT&T implementation, but the BSD open()
>most emphatically does not have an optional third argument!  It has
>three, exactly three, arguments. 

I'll just add this for completeness.

According to SVID, the open call is:

int open(path,oflag,mode)

Three arguments, none optional.
Now everybody go back and change all of the code you have
ever written. :-}

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