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How about O_CREAT_DIRECTORY?

How about O_CREAT_DIRECTORY?

Posted Jul 30, 2026 16:03 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: How about O_CREAT_DIRECTORY? by corbet
Parent article: Reconsidering O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY

> Besides, we would want O_CREATE_DIRECTORY, it's not the 1970s anymore :)

Not to mention that "spelling `creat` with an 'e'` was one thing that Ken Thompson would have changed about Unix given a redo.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Thompson


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How about O_CREAT_DIRECTORY?

Posted Aug 2, 2026 9:57 UTC (Sun) by wjb (subscriber, #71810) [Link]

It's a feature of fixed length naming conventions (or strings) that the length being one character longer would have been better.


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