C fopen vs open

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Is there any reason (other than syntactic ones) that you'd want to use 

FILE *fdopen(int fd, const char *mode);

or

FILE *fopen(const char *path, const char *mode);

instead of 

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

when using C in a Linux environment?

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11 Answers

I changed to open() from fopen() for my application, because fopen was causing double reads every time I ran fopen fgetc . Double reads were disruptive of what I was trying to accomplish. open() just seems to do what you ask of it.

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