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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!knock1.mgh.harvard.edu!pipes From: pipes@knock1.mgh.harvard.edu (Robert A. Wheeler) Subject: Re: problems with fopen in "nn" (streams in kernel?) Message-ID: <II1HBSZE@math.fu-berlin.de> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.questions Summary: grrrr! Sender: Robert A. Wheeler Nntp-Posting-Host: knock1.mgh.harvard.edu Organization: Mass General Hospital, Boston References: <kaxiras.749938489@cs.wisc.edu> <JPYHBFP@math.fu-berlin.de> <CEJAJI.LyJ@festival.ed.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 12:53:08 GMT Lines: 19 In article <CEJAJI.LyJ@festival.ed.ac.uk> richard@castle.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >In article <JPYHBFP@math.fu-berlin.de> pipes@knock1.mgh.harvard.edu (Robert A. Wheeler) writes: >> f = fopen(name, "W"); >> and "W" indicates open (or create) for writing. > >No, "w" indicates open for writing. "W" doesn't indicate anything. > >-- Richard Okay, okay, I used "W" because the man page shows an example with "W", not "w". The test program then works. (I swear I thoought I tried it that way before though) However, the similar statement in global.c _fails_ to open or create the file. This is running as su root, so I don't see how it could be a permission problem, either.