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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86_64: fix delayed signals
    On 07/12, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
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    > On Saturday 12 July 2008 22:26, T?r?k Edwin wrote:
    > > A bit off-topic, but something I noticed during the tests:
    > > In my original test I have rm-ed the files right after launching dd in
    > > the background, yet it still continued to write to the disk.
    > > I can understand that if the file is opened O_RDWR, you might seek back
    > > and read what you wrote, so Linux needs to actually do the write,
    > > but why does it insist on writing to the disk, on a file opened with
    > > O_WRONLY, after the file itself got unlinked?
    >
    > Because process can do
    >
    > fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, fcntl(fd, F_GETFL) | O_RDWR)

    Is it?

    SETFL_MASK doesn't have O_RDWR, and in any case setfl() changes ->f_flags,
    not ->f_mode.

    Oleg.



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