From: Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 22:38:56 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: posix.open(): third argument (mode) is optional.
X-Git-Tag: v1.5a1~689
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fa5a6cff45402dd1ab44879fccb8323bdea1bfc6;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

posix.open(): third argument (mode) is optional.
---

diff --git a/Doc/lib/libposix.tex b/Doc/lib/libposix.tex
index 7cc4c0a3da5a..a0fccddb8494 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libposix.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libposix.tex
@@ -225,10 +225,12 @@ Add \var{incr} to the process' ``niceness''.  Return the new niceness.
 (Not on MS-DOS.)
 \end{funcdesc}
 
-\begin{funcdesc}{open}{file\, flags\, mode}
+\begin{funcdesc}{open}{file\, flags\optional{\, mode}}
 Open the file \var{file} and set various flags according to
 \var{flags} and possibly its mode according to \var{mode}.
-Return the file descriptor for the newly opened file.
+The default \var{mode} is 0777 (octal), and the current umask value is
+first masked out.  Return the file descriptor for the newly opened
+file.
 
 Note: this function is intended for low-level I/O.  For normal usage,
 use the built-in function \code{open}, which returns a ``file object''
diff --git a/Doc/libposix.tex b/Doc/libposix.tex
index 7cc4c0a3da5a..a0fccddb8494 100644
--- a/Doc/libposix.tex
+++ b/Doc/libposix.tex
@@ -225,10 +225,12 @@ Add \var{incr} to the process' ``niceness''.  Return the new niceness.
 (Not on MS-DOS.)
 \end{funcdesc}
 
-\begin{funcdesc}{open}{file\, flags\, mode}
+\begin{funcdesc}{open}{file\, flags\optional{\, mode}}
 Open the file \var{file} and set various flags according to
 \var{flags} and possibly its mode according to \var{mode}.
-Return the file descriptor for the newly opened file.
+The default \var{mode} is 0777 (octal), and the current umask value is
+first masked out.  Return the file descriptor for the newly opened
+file.
 
 Note: this function is intended for low-level I/O.  For normal usage,
 use the built-in function \code{open}, which returns a ``file object''