Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:47:19 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.1.125 doesn't dump core on SIGSEGV |
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On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 09:23:48AM -0800, Ken Pizzini wrote:
> Why not? The O_NOFOLLOW is distinguishable, so NOFOLLOW semantics > would be enabled, and RDWR is distinguishable, so RDWR mode would > be enabled.
Because it implies O_CREAT - so if the file doesn't exist, we will creat it. Therefore this can't be reliaed upon to fail whena file isn't there, something that will break apps.
-cw
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