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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: jcwren@jcwren.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in open() function (?)
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:38:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030711203809.3c320823.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307112309.08542.jcwren@jcwren.com>

"J.C. Wren" <jcwren@jcwren.com> wrote:
>
> I was playing around today and found that if an existing file is opened with 
>  O_TRUNC | O_RDONLY, the existing file is truncated.

Well that's fairly idiotic, isn't it?

The Open Group go on to say "The result of using O_TRUNC with O_RDONLY is
undefined" which is also rather silly.

I'd be inclined to leave it as-is, really.

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-12  3:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-12  1:17 [PATCH] [2.5] adding ppp xon/xoff support Samuel Thibault
2003-07-12  1:30 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-07-12  2:42   ` Samuel Thibault
2003-07-12  3:09     ` Bug in open() function (?) J.C. Wren
2003-07-12  3:38       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-07-12  5:11         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-12  5:23           ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-12  6:14             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-12  9:37               ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-12 12:04                 ` jw schultz
2003-07-12  5:39           ` J.C. Wren
2003-07-26 21:35     ` [PATCH] [2.6] adding xon/xoff support to ppp Samuel Thibault
2003-07-17  7:54 Bug in open() function (?) Michael Kerrisk
2003-07-17 10:54 ` Andries Brouwer

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