creat (2)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man2/creat.2freebsd".)

NAME

creat - create a new file

LIBRARY

Lb libc

SYNOPSIS

In fcntl.h Ft int Fn creat const char *path mode_t mode

DESCRIPTION

Bf -symbolic This interface is made obsolete by: Ef open(2).

The Fn creat function is the same as:

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

SEE ALSO

open(2)

HISTORY

The Fn creat function appeared in AT&T System v6 .