On 05/04/2012 08:47 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > > * src/copy.c (copy_reg): In a narrow race (stat sees dest, yet > open-without-O_CREAT fails with ENOENT), retry the open with O_CREAT. > Reported by Philipp Thomas and Neil F. Brown in > http://debbugs.gnu.org/11100
Question - when we retry with adding O_CREAT, should we also add O_EXCL? That is, we already lost the race once, but the O_EXCL will ensure that we don't lose the race a second time and that we really are creating a file. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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