+
+ /* files must be opened with O_BINARY flag on windows
+ * or it treats the file as a text stream and puts in
+ * line endings in etc
+ */
+#ifdef WIN32
+#define WRITE_FLAGS O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_BINARY
+#define READ_FLAGS O_RDONLY | O_BINARY
+#else
+#define WRITE_FLAGS O_RDWR | O_CREAT
+#define READ_FLAGS O_RDONLY
+#endif
+ _fd = ::g_open (_path.c_str(), _writeable ? WRITE_FLAGS : READ_FLAGS, _mode);