On 30 November 2016 at 15:02, Giacomo Tesio <giac...@tesio.it> wrote:
> > But reading that thread I can't actually see why the OEXCL path has been > taken instead of eliminating the race mapping the syscall to the 9p message. > I mean except backward compatibility. > I suppose you'll find out, but I'd expect that all but a handful of instances want the existing effect and are untroubled by any potential race. Given that OEXCL then seems to handle the handful, it seems a reasonable approach. The ocreate would just put the race in a different place, wouldn't it?
