pedrodel...@gmail.com writes: > According to POSIX manual pages, the open() system call's mode > argument specifies the file mode bits to be applied when a new > file is created. If neither O_CREAT nor O_TMPFILE is specified, > then mode is ignored.
Correct. While I would say two argument form would have been better if this were a new code, this change is borderline Meh for existing code, because passing 0 there already gives a reasonable sign that we know this parameter does not matter. If the ignored parameter were 0666 or some other more plausible-as-perm-bits value, the story would be quite different, though. Thanks.
