Re: GSFileHandle, initForWritingAtPath, and O_CREAT

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Saturday, August 2, 2003, at 02:29 AM, Dan Hitt wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I notice that in the initForWritingAtPath: method of GSFileHandle,
> O_CREAT is not among the flags passed to open.  So, consequently,
> if you try to open a non-existent file with code like
>    GSFileHandle * my_handle=[[GSFileHandle alloc] 
> initForWritingAtPath:path];
> it won't work.
>
> So, i presume this means that this is not the best way to
> deal with opening (and writing to) files?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice on a better way to open a non-existent
> file for writing.

NSFileHandle doen't have a mechanism to create files ... for that you 
use NSFileManager.