This decision also seemed clever at the time, but caused some strange bugs (such as when used with the plain open (2) call, which has a "flags" argument with different semantics).

这一决定在当时看来也算是很聪明的，但导致了一些奇怪的bug(比如和普通的open(2)调用一起使用时，该调用也有一个带有不同语义的“flags”参数)。

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Table 2 below shows interface flags and some attribute retrieval commands.

下面的表2介绍了接口标志和一些属性检索命令。

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As the size of objects is limited, the top 2 bits can be used for flags.

因为对象大小有限，所以最高2位可以用于标志。

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Last year Ma staged a fifth-anniversary bash, in an arena, for all 2, 000 employees, with Taobaoists waving flags of worker ants, the mascot of Taobao--because enough ants united can defeat an elephant.

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In environmental news, Xinhua flags up a survey by the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences showing that only 22.2%of shallow groundwater in the North China Plain is drinkable because of pollution.

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