Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:57:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd@XtremeDev.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: open() in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010828085743.A25951@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20010828014650.T44951-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com> References: <20010827222534.B17383@dan.emsphone.com> <20010828014650.T44951-100000@Amber.XtremeDev.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 28), FreeBSD said: > Ahh, thanks all! Out of curiosity however, wouldn't it be a good > thing to have it default to umask if no arguments were passed rather > than making it a required arg, and just using random data if none was > passed? Seems awfully iffy doing that.. O'well. Just a thought. > Thanks for the rapid replies all! The called function has no idea how many arguments were pushed onto the stack by the caller. Just like printf() counts "%"s in the format string to determine how many arguments it was passed, open() checks the flags field to determine whether there is a third arguemnt or not. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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