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creat

create a new file

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

#include <fcntl.h>

int
creat(const char *path, mode_t mode);

This interface is made obsolete by:

open(2).

The () function is the same as:

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

open(2)

The creat() function appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.