Function
GLibcreat
since: 2.8
Declaration [src]
int
g_creat (
const gchar* filename,
int mode
)
Description [src]
A wrapper for the POSIX creat() function. The creat() function is
used to convert a pathname into a file descriptor, creating a file
if necessary.
On POSIX systems file descriptors are implemented by the operating
system. On Windows, it’s the C library that implements creat() and
file descriptors. The actual Windows API for opening files is
different, see MSDN documentation for CreateFile(). The Win32 API
uses file handles, which are more randomish integers, not small
integers like file descriptors.
Because file descriptors are specific to the C library on Windows,
the file descriptor returned by this function makes sense only to
functions in the same C library. Thus if the GLib-using code uses a
different C library than GLib does, the file descriptor returned by
this function cannot be passed to C library functions like write()
or read().
See your C library manual for more details about creat().
Available since: 2.8