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Many common implementations return a file descriptor for an unlinked file.
The user ID of the file is set to the process's effective user ID and the group ID of the file is set to the process's effective group ID or to the group owner of its parent directory. Yes it is conforming. The test method standard clearly indicates that a conforming test suite is required to test this, however the base standard indicates that a conforming implementation may fail such a test.