On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 06:19:43AM +0100, Andreas Tobler wrote: >> The below patch allows me to get back to normal, means zero unexpected >> fails, on FreeBSD. The patch has been tested on Linux/x86 as well, no >> regressions. > > On Linux, mkostemp performs on flags: > (flags & ~O_ACCMODE) | O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL > before passing it to open(2), so the patch makes no real change on Linux.
Yes, with the help of strace and a small test program I figured out that it must do something like that. See also http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=411 I sent a request to the linux man pages project to improve the documentation. -- Janne Blomqvist
