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authorStephen Compall <s11@member.fsf.org>2012-04-08 14:51:45 +0200
committerAndreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>2012-04-08 14:53:13 +0200
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downloadglibc-624254b18ae5a756baabbcd881faf1440e36151f.tar.gz
Better describe open arguments
[BZ #6649] * manual/llio.texi (Opening and Closing Files): Add cross reference to explain mode argument.
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@@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ declared in @file{unistd.h}.
@comment fcntl.h
@comment POSIX.1
@deftypefun int open (const char *@var{filename}, int @var{flags}[, mode_t @var{mode}])
-The @code{open} function creates and returns a new file descriptor
-for the file named by @var{filename}. Initially, the file position
+The @code{open} function creates and returns a new file descriptor for
+the file named by @var{filename}. Initially, the file position
indicator for the file is at the beginning of the file. The argument
-@var{mode} is used only when a file is created, but it doesn't hurt
-to supply the argument in any case.
+@var{mode} (@pxref{Permission Bits}) is used only when a file is
+created, but it doesn't hurt to supply the argument in any case.
The @var{flags} argument controls how the file is to be opened. This is
a bit mask; you create the value by the bitwise OR of the appropriate