CREAT(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual CREAT(2) NAME creat - create a new file LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <fcntl.h> int creat(const char *path, mode_t mode); DESCRIPTION This interface is made obsolete by: open(2). The creat() function is the same as: open(path, O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_WRONLY, mode); SEE ALSO open(2) HISTORY The creat() function appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX. FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p6 September 4, 2019 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p6