[11827] in Athena Bugs
/usr/athena/etc/track, update.c
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James H. Haynes)
Thu Mar 10 14:50:40 1994
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 11:47:35 -0800 (PST)
From: "James H. Haynes" <haynes@cats.ucsc.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
In track, the file update.c contains this passage
sprintf( temp,"%s_trk.tmp",to);
if ( 0 <= ( fdt = open( temp, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT)));
else if ( errno == ENOSPC) {
Some systems, e.g. Linux, require that the open() call have a third argument
for the file mode when O_CREAT is used; and for those that don't require it
I wonder what determines what it will be? Anyway Linux without an
explicit mode argument happens to create the file read-only, so the
subsequent attempt to write it fails. I don't know what the correct mode
might be, but I'm guessing 0755.
