[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="dir_mkfile"]] routine dir_mkfile ( directory: file_t; RPT flags: int; mode: mode_t; out newnode: mach_port_send_t); Create a new file without linking it into the filesystem. You still must have write permission on the specified directory, even though it will not actually be written. Return in `newnode` a port to the file. `flags` are the same as for [[`dir_lookup`|dir_lookup]], but `O_CREAT` and `O_TRUNC` are assumed even if not specified.