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When a program wishes to reference a file which already exists, it must “open” the file to create a “bridge” to the file. (Note that in UNIX, processes usually inherit the open files of their parents or predecessors, so that often all needed files are already implicitly open.) If the file does not already exist, it must be “created”.
This second case will be investigated first:
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