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Description of problem:
Creating an ifstream (or fstream with ios::in) object with openmode
ios::ate and with the name of a non-existant file creates an empty file on
the filesystem.

// testprogram.cpp

#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

int main(int,char**)
{
    fstream fTest( "testfile", ios::in|ios::ate );
    return 0;
}


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.96-98


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. # g++ testprogram.cpp -o testprogram
2. # rm -f testfile ; ./testprogram
3. # file testprogram


Actual Results:  $ file testfile
testfile: empty


Expected Results:  $ file testfile
testfile: can't stat `testfile' (No such file or directory).


Additional info:

ios::nocreate has not made it into the C++ Standard. Creating an input
fstream object upon a non-existant file should fail without creating an
empty file.