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| author | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 1994-10-14 03:53:14 +0000 |
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| committer | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 1994-10-14 03:53:14 +0000 |
| commit | eab6f2615f2ee39d701a329fdf6a1f31d6f2e57c (patch) | |
| tree | 53d8f5312b0cf1507a3e7f84cc24bf155b521082 | |
| parent | c67356287c51d3c8157eaf05b74d9f35bbbbef6c (diff) | |
(Opening Streams): In fopen x flag description, mention atomicity, and fix
xref to open.
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/stdio.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/manual/stdio.texi b/manual/stdio.texi index 9b9a631df3..cfbf8ce4cb 100644 --- a/manual/stdio.texi +++ b/manual/stdio.texi @@ -185,8 +185,10 @@ stream in whatever order. The GNU C library defines one additional character for use in @var{opentype}: the character @samp{x} insists on creating a new file---if a file @var{filename} already exists, @code{fopen} fails -rather than opening it. This is equivalent to the @code{O_EXCL} option -to the @code{open} function (@pxref{File Status Flags}). +rather than opening it. If you use @samp{x} you can are guaranteed that +you will not clobber an existing file. This is equivalent to the +@code{O_EXCL} option to the @code{open} function (@pxref{Opening and +Closing Files}). The character @samp{b} in @var{opentype} has a standard meaning; it requests a binary stream rather than a text stream. But this makes no |