On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 05:58:10PM -0700, Andy Grover wrote: > Other backstores open backing devices in exclusive mode, fileio should as > well. O_EXCL doesn't really provide an exclusion once the file is opened, it just means the caller has to create the file and it can't exist beforehand. I don't think that's the semantics fileio needs. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html