Is this [SMF record] flags byte recording behavior?  Or is it
recording [only] open option(s) specified?

If the latter, should not opening for update set both the IN and the
OUT bits?   How otherwise is the specification of update reflected in
this byte?

I think Massimo has an adequate basis for consulting IBM, and I should
myself be interested in its explanation of this behavior.  There may
be some simple rationale for what is being observed here, but the
implementation of this byte appears to me to have been botched.

John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

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