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Subject: Re: cygwin1.dll bug in open(O_EXCL)
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On Aug 24 10:49, Eric Blake wrote:
> As a side effect of your change, open("broken_symlink", O_RDWR|O_EXCL) now
> fails with EACCES instead of ENOENT, but since POSIX leaves O_EXCL without
> O_CREAT as undefined behavior.

That's why I didn't add any further testing for other cases with O_EXCL.
Isn't it good to know to have a fully POSIX-compliant undefined
behaviour? ;)


Corinna

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