A GNU C Library update

#ifndef O_CREATE
#define O_CREATE O_CREAT
#endif

which is portable to any sane platform (i.e. one that hasn't already defined O_CREATE ;).

When I was 15 or so, I was out to fix anything that didn't fit into my view of the world as I head learned it thus far. All perceived defects were of equal importance. I had a library of stuff like:

#define IF (
#define THEN ) {
#define END }
#define AND &&
#define OR ||
#define CALL

because it let me write code like

IF x > 3 AND y < 5 THEN
CALL do_stuff();
END

which looked vaguely like the various languages I'd encountered prior to C, except with painfully wrong results when it was time to find out if x was equal to something.

This didn't help me read any existing code, and it meant nobody else could read mine, so I got over it--especially when it became clear just how important code readability was going to be. I think it's a phase many coders go through.