Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:46:17 +0400 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix delayed signals |
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On 07/12, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > 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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