From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265527AbUAGN2E (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:28:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265528AbUAGN2E (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:28:04 -0500 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:3274 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265527AbUAGN2B (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:28:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:27:59 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Cc: Rob Love , Nathan Conrad , Pascal Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-ID: <20040107132759.GA6912@suse.de> References: <20031231192306.GG25389@kroah.com> <1072901961.11003.14.camel@fur> <20031231220107.GC11032@bungled.net> <1072909218.11003.24.camel@fur> <20031231225536.GP4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040107101559.GA22770@suse.de> <20040107111832.GL4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040107130036.GA3186@suse.de> <20040107132656.GM4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20040107132656.GM4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> X-DOS: I got your 640K Real Mode Right Here Buddy! X-Homeland-Security: You are not supposed to read this line! You are a terrorist! User-Agent: Mutt und vi sind doch schneller als Notes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 07, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:00:36PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > > > Ok, it was mkfs.minix and an older distro. > > mkfs should simply pass O_EXCL to open(). Which is what you really want > and yes, it should work on 2.6 (not sure if it got backported on 2.4). Thanks! I will play with it and see what current tools use. -- USB is for mice, FireWire is for men! sUse lINUX ag, nÜRNBERG