plementations, supports only the semantics of 'c' and 'n'
values.  Other values will default to the semantics of 'c' value:
the database will always opened for update and will be created if it
does not exist.

The optional mode argument is the UNIX mode of the file, used only when
the database has to be created.  It defaults to octal code 0o666 (and
will be modified by the prevailing umask).

r