Hi Fabrizio, As we discussed at this morning's meeting; the force flag should be off unless the "-f" option is specified on the command line. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fabrizio Furano" <[log in to unmask]> To: "Andy Hanushevsky" <[log in to unmask]>; "Peter Elmer" <[log in to unmask]>; <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 7:22 AM Subject: Open flags for writing > Hi Andy, > > there has been some discussion about this, but I have no clear ideas about > its conclusion. > > Xrdcp opens for writing an xrd file using these flags: > > Open(kXR_ur | kXR_uw | kXR_gw | kXR_gr | kXR_or, > kXR_sync | kXR_mkpath | > kXR_open_updt | kXR_new | kXR_force)) > > As you can see, there is also kXR_force, which was put there (if I > remember > correctly) after the crazy tests performed by Alvise some time ago. > > What do you think? Shall I drop it? > > Fabrizio > > > -- > -------- > Fabrizio Furano > INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare > > [log in to unmask] >