On Dec 2, 2007 3:32 PM, Timo Sirainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 2.64-1 > Severity: normal > > "O_EXCL is broken on NFS file systems" is wrong. Rather it should be "O_EXCL > doesn't work on NFSv2 file systems". And since pretty much everyone uses at > least NFSv3 nowadays I don't think it's worth mentioning the link() > workaround anymore.
Timo, Can you provide pointers to further information about O_EXCL working for NFSv3 and later? I am no NFS expert. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Maintainer of the Linux man-pages project http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
