Bug 18045

Summary:	fopen man page invalid
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Trenton D. Adams <adamst>
Component:	man-pages	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	adamst
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Description Trenton D. Adams 2000-10-01 23:27:36 UTC

The man page for fopen regarding the "a+" option is invalid.  It says that 
it opens a file for reading/writing.  This is not true.  It opens it for 
reading/appending.  You can only write to the end of a file, not to 
anywhere else with this option specified.  I don't know how to distribute 
this information to the Linux community, so I was hoping that RedHat might 
be able to.

Comment 1 Alan Cox 2002-12-15 02:02:26 UTC

This was fixed but the bug was not closed