[klibc] creat isn't exported

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Thu Sep 28 13:55:52 PDT 2006


Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> 
> creat.c on usr/klibc exists, but it isn't compiled. Activating it in
> Kbuild allows the rtfs w/ creat to link, but it still gives a warning
> about creat not being declared.
> 
> At least a #define creat(p, m) open(p, O_..., m) would be nice, for
> compatibility reasons.
> 

I don't care much for creat(), I've considered it obsolete for over 20 
years.  For new code, use open() instead.

It presumably should be in there for compatibility, though, at least as 
an inline.

	-hpa



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