Re: [MacPerl] sysopen

[Brian "L." Matthews <blm@halcyon.com>]

Geoffrey C Kinnel writes:
|Woah. It appears that Paul has the answer, and that I was hasty
|in my reading of perlfunc, but isn't it a little weird that
|0_RDRW would work and 2 wouldn't? 

No, because O_RDWR isn't necessarily 2, it's whatever's needed for the
platform. In the case of the Mac, it appears that's 1.

|When is a constant not a constant? (Perl koan)

2 is a constant, and O_RDWR is a constant *on a specific platform*, not
necessarily across all platforms.

Brian

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