Why doesn't (open ... :if-exists) support :truncate?


Howcome the standard OPEN ... :IF-EXISTS actions don't include an
option for truncating the file when the stream is created? The LispM
seems to have supported a :TRUNCATE here, implementations have always
had to support direct I/O in order to do :OVERWRITE or :APPEND, and
truncation is the natural way to open files under Unix at least; so I
wonder why there isn't a standard way to ask for this behavior.

Thanks,
RmK
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