While coding a little script

Jaap Vermeulen (jaap@sequent.com)
Wed, 24 Aug 1994 11:27:18 -0700

I came across the fact that the open() builtin allows an undocumented
third argument, the bufsize. However, it lacks the ability to set the
permissions of a newly created file. I assume that you have to dink
around with os.umask() to get things happen, rather clumsy. I actually
expected the third argument to open() to be the mode of the file (as in
dbm.open()). Is anybody using the bufsize functionality? Can we add,
or could you point out, an easier way of specifying the permissions of
newly created files?

Thanks,

-Jaap-

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