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Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 09:47:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Re: _open problem using O_EXCL flag and -mno-cygwin
To: dponce@voila.fr
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--- David Ponce <dponce@voila.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> "Dan Holmsand" <dan@eyebee.com> gave me the solution:
> 
> >  I saw your post on the cygwin list about O_EXCL trouble with
> >  -mno-cygwin.
> >
> >  I've come across this also, and found (the hard way) that O_EXCL
> >  doesn't play well with O_TRUNC (and after all, logically they are
> >  mutually exclusive).
> 
> >  So, you might want to try without O_TRUNC - and it just might work...
> 
> 
> So if I dont use the O_TRUNC with the O_EXCL flags, _open works well.
> 

Oh, yes I remember this now.  I ran into it years ago and had forgotten.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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