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Manual Pages  — CREAT

NAME

creat – create a new file

CONTENTS

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <fcntl.h>

int
creat(const char *path, mode_t mode);

DESCRIPTION

This interface is made obsolete by: open(2).

The creat() function is the same as:

open(path, O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_WRONLY, mode);

SEE ALSO

open(2)

HISTORY

The creat() function appeared in AT&T v6 .

CREAT (2) June 2, 1993

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