diff options
| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2019-09-23 12:41:22 -0700 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2019-09-23 12:46:53 -0700 |
| commit | 505e3dbfa8a784815ce0830ef891abb90bcce3dd (patch) | |
| tree | 49c0f16526d8703b137de7c4bd9f3686d9dfc0d7 /lib/creat.c | |
| parent | 9e78024bad107fe786cc3e5e328a475921ea0873 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-505e3dbfa8a784815ce0830ef891abb90bcce3dd.tar.gz | |
Update URLs and associated text
(Thanks to Bruno Haible for proofreading the earlier patch.)
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/creat.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/creat.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/creat.c b/lib/creat.c index 89132e2bb2..e63b219576 100644 --- a/lib/creat.c +++ b/lib/creat.c @@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ int creat (const char *filename, mode_t mode) { #if OPEN_TRAILING_SLASH_BUG - /* If the filename ends in a slash, then fail. - Rationale: POSIX <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html> + /* Fail if the filename ends in a slash, + as POSIX says such a filename must name a directory + <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap04.html#tag_04_13>. creat() is defined as being equivalent to open() with flags O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_WRONLY. Therefore: If the named file already exists as a directory, then creat() must fail |