Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:01:38 +0000 (GMT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: access() says EROFS even for device files if /dev is mounted RO |
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:04:31PM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > > Ok, so if you read the standard carefully you get a bogus result. > > Why bogus? Things could have been otherwise, but the important > part is that all Unices do things the same way.
Yes, and I think you'll have difficulty, Andries, finding any other Unices which interpret the standard as you and Linux do: Solaris, HP-UX, UnixWare and OpenServer all allow writing to a device node (or FIFO) on read-only filesystem.
Hugh
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