On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 06:01:48AM -0500, Arthur Williams wrote: > Make opening a file with the O_CREAT flag a no-op if the specified file > exists even if it exists as a directory. Allows userspace commands, like > flock, to open a file and create it if it doesn't exist instead of > having to parse errno. Not going to happen. It's a user-visible behaviour, consistent between all kinds of Unices, consistent with POSIX and it does make sense. NAK.
