1) O_NONE, etc. Why not? It's symmetrical, useful, even elegant.
2) Eliminating chmod() & friends. Why? All you'll be doing is insuring
that programs that are secure on, say, FreeBSD or Solaris, have
dangerous security issues on Linux (open/f*/close introduces
potential races as well as eliminating others), and vice-versa.
Not a good idea.
-Ed
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