Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I recognize the value of the added open-with-O_WRONLY, > but note that it's wasted on modern Linux systems.
Come to think of it, it's wasted on any system that conforms to POSIX, since POSIX requires that open-with-write-access must fail on directories. I think I'm responsible for that O_WRONLY business, but I don't recall what I tried it out on -- perhaps SunOS 4? I don't think it's worth worrying about non-POSIX systems, so I'll prepare a patch that undoes that stuff (both here and elsewhere). There are some related things that need normalizing, too, e.g., whether to open directories with O_NONBLOCK, O_DIRECTORY, and the like. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
