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@node creat
@section @code{creat}
@findex creat
POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/creat.html}
Gnulib module: creat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function does not support modes with execution bits (such as 0700)
on some platforms:
MSVC 14.
@item
On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{creat} may not work
correctly with files 2 GiB and larger. @xref{Large File Support}.
@item
This function does not fail when the file name argument ends in a slash
and (without the slash) names a nonexistent file, on some platforms:
FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1, HP-UX 11.31, Solaris 9.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
On Windows, this function returns a file handle in @code{O_TEXT} mode. If you
need a file handle in @code{O_BINARY} mode, you need to use the function
@code{open} instead.
@end itemize