Re^2: sysopen vs. open

I'm not very familiar with C. So, I have to ask... in which situation is open better than sysopen or vice-versa?

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Re^3: sysopen vs. open by tilly (Archbishop) on May 15, 2009 at 00:49 UTC
At a command prompt type `perldoc -f sysopen` and `perldoc -f open`. Or compare them on http://perldoc.perl.org/index-functions.html. My summary is that sysopen is a lower-level interface that can't ever be removed because of backwards compatibility, while open is the one that I would suggest people use.	[reply] [d/l] [select]