Hello Folkert, On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Folkert van Heusden <folkert.mobiel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Here's a patch to the problem described in the subject. > > I gained this knowledge by reading > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html > > Patch against version 3.32 of the man-pages. Thanks. Applied for man-pages-3.32. Cheers, Michael > diff -uNrBbd man-pages-3.32.org/man2/open.2 man-pages-3.32/man2/open.2 > --- man-pages-3.32.org/man2/open.2 2010-12-03 08:01:59.000000000 +0100 > +++ man-pages-3.32/man2/open.2 2011-05-30 14:55:53.766064010 +0200 > @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ > .\" 2008-01-11, Greg Banks <gnb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: add more detail > .\" on O_DIRECT. > .\" 2008-02-26, Michael Haardt: Reorganized text for O_CREAT and mode > +.\" 2011-05-30, Folkert van Heusden <folkert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: O_CLOEXEC > +.\" no longer is Linux-specific > .\" > .\" FIXME . Apr 08: The next POSIX revision has O_EXEC, O_SEARCH, and > .\" O_TTYINIT. Eventually these may need to be documented. --mtk > @@ -79,7 +81,7 @@ > .B FD_CLOEXEC > file descriptor flag described in > .BR fcntl (2) > -is initially disabled; the Linux-specific > +is initially disabled; the > .B O_CLOEXEC > flag, described below, can be used to change this default). > The file offset is set to the beginning of the file (see > > > Really hoping that I'm not mistaken while waisting your time :-) > > > > -- > www.vanheusden.com > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html