Re: [Bug-tar] tar-wish: -k avoid error messages

[Joerg Schilling]

Helmut Waitzmann <address@hidden> wrote:

> open (file_name, openflag | O_EXCL, mode);
>
> On NFS file systems, even this is broken, as can be read in the open(2)
> manual page:
>
>  O_EXCL
>         When used with O_CREAT, if the file  already  exists  it  is  an
>         error  and  the open will fail. In this context, a symbolic link
>         exists, regardless of where its points to.  O_EXCL is broken  on
>         NFS file systems, programs which rely on it for performing lock-

Do you mean Linux NFS is broken?

There is no such text in man -s 2 open

Jörg

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