.\" FIXME . Apr 08: The next POSIX revision has O_EXEC, O_SEARCH, and
.\" O_TTYINIT. Eventually these may need to be documented. --mtk
.\" FIXME Linux 2.6.33 has O_DSYNC, and a hidden __O_SYNC.
+.\" FIXME: Linux 2.6.39 added O_PATH
.\"
-.TH OPEN 2 2010-11-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH OPEN 2 2011-09-08 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
open, creat \- open and possibly create a file or device
.SH SYNOPSIS
.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
.B _FILE_OFFSET_BITS
feature test macro to 64 (rather than using
.BR O_LARGEFILE )
-is the preferred method of obtaining
+is the preferred
method of accessing large files on 32-bit systems (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)).
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