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From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Allow open with O_CREAT to succeed if existing dir
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On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 06:01:48AM -0500, Arthur Williams wrote:
> Make opening a file with the O_CREAT flag a no-op if the specified file
> exists even if it exists as a directory. Allows userspace commands, like
> flock, to open a file and create it if it doesn't exist instead of
> having to parse errno.

Not going to happen.  It's a user-visible behaviour, consistent between
all kinds of Unices, consistent with POSIX and it does make sense.

NAK.