               <span class="bold"><strong>len</strong></span> bytes long will cause the call to
                 fail immediately and return an error.
             </p>
          </li>
          <li>
            <p>
                  <span class="bold"><strong>-mode mode</strong></span> 
            </p>
            <p>
                 On UNIX systems, or in IEEE/ANSI Std 1003.1 (POSIX) environments, all
                 files created by the access methods are created with mode <span class="bold"><strong>m