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Re: [wg14/wg21 liaison] fopen 'x', 'a' and 'p'

From: Joseph Myers <joseph_at_[hidden]>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 16:50:05 +0000
On Fri, 27 May 2022, Ville Voutilainen via Liaison wrote:

> Can you briefly explain what existing practice the new "p" flag is based on?

I'm supposing Linux O_TMPFILE. That's passed to open() along with a path
to a directory, and the proposed text seems rather underspecified about
what the semantics of the path passed to fopen with "p" would be - *how*
it's intended to specify the file system for the file.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph_at_[hidden]

Received on 2022-05-27 16:50:14