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From: Christoph Zimmermann <monochromec AT gmail DOT com>
Subject: mintty issue with version 2.3.7
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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:56:14 +0200
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After the recent update to version 2.3.7 mintty prints the error message

Error: could not open log file: File exists.
: File exists <log file name>

every time I open a mintty window. I've tracked this down to the 
following snippet (around line # 228) in child.c:

    char * logf = newn(char, MAX_PATH + 1);
         strftime (logf, MAX_PATH, log, localtime (& now.tv_sec));
         free(log);
         log = logf;
       }

       log_fd = open(log, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0600);
       if (log_fd < 0) {
         // report message and filename:
         childerror("could not open log file", false);
         childerror(log, false);
       }

The culprit seems to be the open invocation with the combination of 
flags; possibly pointing to
a problem in the corresponding cygwin.dll implementation.

Please let me know if you need more details.

	Thanks, Chris

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