-.\" $OpenBSD: fopen.3,v 1.31 2015/01/13 14:02:30 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: fopen.3,v 1.32 2015/01/15 19:20:59 schwarze Exp $
.\"
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-.Dd $Mdocdate: January 13 2015 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 15 2015 $
.Dt FOPEN 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Dq w
or
.Dq a
-then the function shall fail if file
+then the function shall fail if the file specified by
.Fa path
-already exist, as if the
+already exists, as if the
.Dv O_EXCL
flag was passed to the
.Xr open 2