Okay, fine, I'm just going to have to go read up on this crap, then. :-P ;-) -Tyler On 2004-07-05 at 14:58:06 [-0700], Bruno G. Albuquerque wrote: > On Mon, 05 Jul 2004 14:55:14 -0700, Tyler Dauwalder < > tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > > I did O_RDWR | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT. But regardless, aren't permissions > > a > > bitmask? I wouldn't think you could cause random 's' and 'S' > > characters to > > appear, just toggle the usual chars on or off. > > They're not random. They are actually valid modes. > > -Bruno