Permission denied in Linux when accessing a file I created with the same application

I am working on a program that needs to store some information and I decided to use a simple file for it.

When the program starts, it executes the following code, which should result in the file being opened in append mode if it exists, or created if not (The first time the program is loaded, it should create it the next time it just needs to use the same file)

if((fd = open(path, O_APPEND|O_CREAT|O_RDWR, 666)) < 0)
{
    perror("Database open failed");
}
else if(chmod(path, 666) < 0)
{
    perror("Database set permissions failed");
}
else if((stream = fdopen(fd, "a+")) == NULL)
{
    perror("Database get stream failed");
}

      

        
        
        
      

    

When the file does not exist, it is successfully created and the program runs fine. But when the file already exists, it says "Permission denied" even if it is the same program under the same user who created the file.

Additional Information:

• I am using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• When I check using "ls -l" the file permissions are: "--w - wx-wT"
• chmod-ing from terminal with 666 release solutions
• chmod () - the code in the code didn't help at all

Thank!