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SubjectRe: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 09:05:05AM -0800, Ken Pizzini wrote:

> (bit patterns made up for example purposes):
> #define O_CREAT 0x50
> #define O_EXCL 0xa0
> #define O_NOFOLLOW 0xc0
>
> Then we get (O_CREAT|O_EXCL) == (O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOFOLLOW),
> but we can detect that none of O_CREAT, O_EXCL, ((O_CREAT|O_EXCL)&~O_NOFOLLOW)
> match (x&O_NOFOLLOW)==O_NOFOLLOW.
>
> Would this be an acceptable solution?

No, because open(..,O_RDWR|O_NOFOLLOW) won't work as expected then.

For now, I think things should stay as they are... people have
pointed out examples of thing that will go bad and have horribly
failure modes if its changed - something that won't help linux's
reputation.

I think this thread should be left to die now...




-cw

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