Hi Serge,
> Though the special case for calling open() without a mode arg seems
> unnecessary since when called without O_CREAT, mode is supposed to be
> ignored.
Oh, I never looked too closely at open and I simply went with the
function signatures in the manpage. Feel free to simplify that.
--
Quoting Christian Seiler (christ...@iwakd.de):
> Newer glibc versions (that we can't require) allow for an additional
> letter 'e' in the fopen mode that will cause the file to be opened with
> the O_CLOEXEC flag, so that it will be closed if the program exec()s
> away. This is important because if
Newer glibc versions (that we can't require) allow for an additional
letter 'e' in the fopen mode that will cause the file to be opened with
the O_CLOEXEC flag, so that it will be closed if the program exec()s
away. This is important because if liblxc is used in a multithreaded
program, another thr
