On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:17:06PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: > Its main purpose would be to implement noclobber mode (set -C) in sh > (and one presumes, the similar thing in csh).
It strikes me as a lot of complexity for a limited use case. Joerg PS: I would find something like O_NOATIME to be much more useful, when talking about special purpose flags with non-trivial impact.
