John M McIntosh wrote:

> What if we were to change this to use open verus fopen, and also then
> pass in the required flags and mode
> 
> ie
> open ("foo",O_CREAT,S_IRWXU)

...

> Thoughts folks?

I'd like the extra flexibility. But I don't like legacy cruft growing and growing, such as the image having to deal with both fopen and open calls...

-Mark Schwenk
 WellThot Inc.