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.TH creat 2 "25 Mar 2002" "SunOS 5.11" "System Calls"
.SH NAME
creat \- create a new file or rewrite an existing one
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

\fBint\fR \fBcreat\fR(\fBconst char *\fR\fIpath\fR, \fBmode_t\fR \fImode\fR);
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.sp
.LP
The function call
.sp
.LP
creat(path, mode)
.sp
.LP
is equivalent to:
.sp
.LP
\fBopen(path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, mode)\fR
.SH RETURN VALUES
.sp
.LP
Refer to \fBopen\fR(2).
.SH ERRORS
.sp
.LP
Refer to \fBopen\fR(2).
.SH EXAMPLES
.LP
\fBExample 1 \fRCreating a File
.sp
.LP
The following example creates the file \fB/tmp/file\fR with read and write permissions for the file owner and read permission for group and others. The resulting file descriptor is assigned to the \fIfd\fR variable.

.sp
.in +2
.nf
#include <fcntl.h>
\&...
int fd;
mode_t mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH;
char *filename = "/tmp/file";
\&...
fd = creat(filename, mode);
\&...
.fi
.in -2

.SH USAGE
.sp
.LP
The \fBcreat()\fR function has a transitional interface for 64-bit file offsets.  See \fBlf64\fR(5).
.SH ATTRIBUTES
.sp
.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.sp

.sp
.TS
tab() box;
cw(2.75i) |cw(2.75i) 
lw(2.75i) |lw(2.75i) 
.
ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
_
Interface StabilityCommitted
_
MT-LevelAsync-Signal-Safe
_
StandardSee \fBstandards\fR(5).
.TE

.SH SEE ALSO
.sp
.LP
\fBopen\fR(2), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBlargefile\fR(5), \fBlf64\fR(5), \fBstandards\fR(5)