4.2 manual section 2 error code lists considered bogus

Andries Brouwer aeb at mcvax.UUCP
Thu May 9 03:31:59 AEST 1985


In addition to the long list of corrections and additions to the section 2
man pages posted recently by Guy Harris one might remark that, contrary to
what is stated for creat(2): "Creat will fail and the file will not be created
or truncated if one of the following occur: ...", creat will in fact create
(but not truncate) a file when the EMFILE (too many open files) error is
returned.

(This is on BSD4.2 and was noticed by ab at unido while playing around with hack.)



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