On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:17:06PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > O_NOCLOBBER|O_CREAT is intended to be the same as O_EXCL|O_CREAT when the > file named is a regular file, but unlike the O_EXCL variant, succeed if > the file is a special file (like /dev/ttyN) which exists already.
What is the point of this "restriction"? They wanted to make a set flag, but allow people to not have to use sub shells when also redirecting stderr? Joerg
