Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/04/2012 08:47 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> * src/copy.c (copy_reg): In a narrow race (stat sees dest, yet >> open-without-O_CREAT fails with ENOENT), retry the open with O_CREAT. >> Reported by Philipp Thomas and Neil F. Brown in >> http://debbugs.gnu.org/11100 > > Question - when we retry with adding O_CREAT, should we also add O_EXCL? > That is, we already lost the race once, but the O_EXCL will ensure that > we don't lose the race a second time and that we really are creating a file.
And thanks for looking.
