[Quoting Jarkko Hietaniemi, on May 6 2002, 16:35, in "Re: Draft manifest"]
> The O_XXX of sysopen() come to mind as a possible reason for Fcntl,
> but I think bootstrap-like tasks should be possible without those

Exactly.

> I think only O_EXCL and O_NONBLOCK are something you can't get from
> the standard open(), and the need for that level of control in a
> bootstrap/build/etc is debatable.

Exactly.

-- Johan

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