On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, Christos Zoulas wrote:
There are some TOCTOU races in this code, where something about the file could change in between the stat() and the open().Well, we could try to open without O_CREAT first, for device nodes it should succeed, if it fails do the O_EXCL thingy. I think open has enough flags.
Yes, that would probably work, and it's easier than my ideas. --apb (Alan Barrett)
