Jamie Lokier wrote:
>
> They're so similar -- do we really need to very similar different
> thingws. If so, let's isolate the orthognal differences and make them
> work in all reasonable circumstances. Hence F_REOPEN.
>
Can you call F_REOPEN multiple times, or only once after
open(O_DEFEROPEN)
Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
> Presumably this is so that the floppy driver can check that nobody
> expects to read or write the disk while a format is in progress?
> If so, I accept the need for O_NONE.
No, it's so fdformat can open /dev/fd0 before fd0 knows what floppy
format to use, and so it doesn
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > That being the case, I'd rather that O_NONE just went away. I
> > am unconvinced of its worth anyway.
>
> Apparently it's used by fdformat and a few other small utils.
Presumably this is so that the floppy driver can check that nobody
expects to read
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> O_NONE already does some kind of permission check -- you can only open a
> file that has read and write access. You certainly can't open an
> inaccessible file.
Yes thank God. I was pretty concerned when I first saw the O_NONE
thread! Many Linux ioctl
