On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:05:30 +0200, Brian Dessent <brian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jonas Karlsson wrote:
>
>> open("/tmp/ccc72aCK.ld", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
>
> I don't know why your filesystem returns an error for this syscall, but
> with a normal filesystem driver the exact same sequence occurs and
> succeeds:
>
> open("/tmp/ccPxl0Fa.ld", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 3
> close(3) = 0
> gettimeofday({1218326107, 17028}, NULL) = 0
> getpid() = 16870
> open("/tmp/ccCsztRa.le", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600) = 3
> close(3) = 0
> open("/tmp/ccPxl0Fa.ld", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 3
>
> open() should fail with an existing file with O_CREAT|O_EXCL, but with
> O_CREAT|O_TRUNC it should succeed and truncate the file.
>
Yes! Thanks for the hint. This was all an error in the funionfs
implementation. Not being that experianced in file flags, I needed a
pointer. Thanks again.
--
/Jonas
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