Justin,

> Included is a patch to document the fopen mode 'm'; please consider
> applying it.

To repeat a past request: please, for my sake, make patches 
inline rather than attached.

> Note that there's also a 'c' flag for open_not_cancel, but since I
> can't find much documentation and don't really understand it, I'm not
> writing a patch at this time ..

I think I may add something on this.

To your patch:

>  fopen, fdopen, freopen \- stream open functions

Did you check whether you text is true of all three of these 
functions?

> +.TP
> +.B m
> +Attempts to access the file using \fBmmap()\fP rather than
> +\fBread()\fP and \fBwrite()\fP.

How did you deduce "write()"?  My reading is that mmap() is only used
if the file is opened for reading.

Cheers,

Michael

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