diff --git a/libgloss/ChangeLog b/libgloss/ChangeLog
index e796c1b3f..8f05be8d0 100644
--- a/libgloss/ChangeLog
+++ b/libgloss/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-05-07  Patrick Mansfield  <patmans@us.ibm.com>
+
+	* spu/open.c: Unconditionally set the "mode" to fix a bug where
+	mode was not properly set.
+
 2007-05-03  Kazu Hirata  <kazu@codesourcery.com>
 
 	* m68k/fido-_exit.c (_exit): Use stop #0x700.
@@ -7,7 +12,7 @@
 	* m68k/fido.sc: Catch .text.*, .rodata.*, .data.*, .bss.*,
 	.ctor.*, and .dtor.*.  Wrap ctor/dtor-related sections with KEEP.
 
-2007-04-04  Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
+2007-04-04  Patrick Mansfield  <patmans@us.ibm.com>
  
 	* spu/syscalls.c: Rename _send_to_ppe __send_to_ppe, and set errno
 	on return from the offload call.
@@ -31,7 +36,7 @@
 	* spu/sbrk.c (sbrk): Adjust the stack pointer vector correctly so
 	that GCC runtime stack checking works.  Handle the backchain, too.
 
-2007-02-21  Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>
+2007-02-21  Patrick Mansfield  <patmans@us.ibm.com>
 
 	* spu/gettimeofday.c: New file which adds SPU gettimeofday.
 	* spu/jsre.h: Remove time, add gettimeofday.
diff --git a/libgloss/spu/open.c b/libgloss/spu/open.c
index c005f1d0a..c6882bd86 100644
--- a/libgloss/spu/open.c
+++ b/libgloss/spu/open.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ open (const char *filename, int flags, ...)
 {
         syscall_open_t sys ;
 	syscall_out_t	*psys_out = ( syscall_out_t* )&sys;
+        va_list ap;
 
         sys.pathname = ( unsigned int )filename;
 
@@ -63,22 +64,11 @@ open (const char *filename, int flags, ...)
 	sys.flags |= ( ( flags & O_WRONLY ) ? JSRE_O_WRONLY : 0 );
 	sys.flags |= ( ( flags & O_RDWR )  ? JSRE_O_RDWR  : 0 );
 
-
 	/* FIXME: we have to check/map all flags */
 
-        if ((sys.flags & O_CREAT))
-          {
-                  va_list ap;
-
-                  va_start (ap, flags);
-                  sys.mode = va_arg (ap, int);
-                  va_end (ap);
-
-          }
-        else
-          {
-                  sys.mode = 0;
-          }
+        va_start (ap, flags);
+        sys.mode = va_arg (ap, int);
+        va_end (ap);
 
         __send_to_ppe (JSRE_POSIX1_SIGNALCODE, JSRE_OPEN, &sys);