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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Re: open() prototype
Message-ID: <12570010@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 14 May 89 00:51:42 GMT
References: <10249@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> The best interpretation is that open() really is a variadic-argument
> function, that the third argument is required for O_CREAT and may be
> present but is ignored otherwise, and that <fcntl.h> must be included
> in applications to obtain the appropriate function declaration.

What would have been really useful is some way to "default" the value
of an argument:

  int open (char *, int, int = 0777);

(a' la' C++).
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Shankar.