creat(2) System Calls creat(2)NAMEcreat - create a new file or rewrite an existing one
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
int creat(const char *path, mode_t mode);
DESCRIPTION
The function call
creat(path, mode)
is equivalent to:
open(path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, mode)
RETURN VALUES
Refer to open(2).
ERRORS
Refer to open(2).
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Creating a File
The following example creates the file /tmp/file with read and write
permissions for the file owner and read permission for group and oth‐
ers. The resulting file descriptor is assigned to the fd variable.
#include <fcntl.h>
...
int fd;
mode_t mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH;
char *filename = "/tmp/file";
...
fd = creat(filename, mode);
...
USAGE
The creat() function has a transitional interface for 64-bit file off‐
sets. See lf64(5).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface Stability │Standard │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│MT-Level │Async-Signal-Safe │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOopen(2), attributes(5), largefile(5), lf64(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.10 25 Mar 2002 creat(2)
