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  2. JDK-8218857

Confusing overloads for os::open

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      os::open presently has the following overloads:

        int open(const char* pathname, int flags, int mode);
        FILE* open(int fd, const char* mode);

      The present 2-arg overload is really fdopen, and should be renamed accordingly. Two overloads in the same "namespace" with completely different semantics is just confusing, even more so with JDK-8218856.

      (This suggestion came out of the review for JDK-8218811.)

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              hseigel Harold Seigel (Inactive)
              kbarrett Kim Barrett
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