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doc: numeric flags to fs.open
This has been supperted for long but never tested nor documented. PR-URL: #3641 Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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to a non-existent file. The exclusive flag may or may not work with network file
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`flags` can also be a number as documented by open(2); commonly used constants
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are available from `require('constants')`. On Windows, flags are translated to
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their equivalent ones where applicable, e.g. `O_WRONLY` to `FILE_GENERIC_WRITE`,
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or `O_EXCL|O_CREAT` to `CREATE_NEW`, as accepted by CreateFileW.
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On Linux, positional writes don't work when the file is opened in append mode.
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The kernel ignores the position argument and always appends the data to
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the end of the file.

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