On Mon, 2025-10-06 at 22:40 +0100, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> What should we do if we get O_EXCL and O_RDONLY? Return an error?
> Ignore the O_EXCL flag?

As a command/response interface, it can't be operated read only ... so
I think we should just return -EINVAL (or something more appropriate)
if someone tries to open it O_RDONLY regardless of O_EXCL.

Regards,

James


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