On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 09:09:13AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > Surprising or not, the thusly compiled kernel ran fine and I could > > handle floppies like before! (open(/dev/fd0,O_ACCMODE) succeeds.) > > Thanks for testing. > > Now next question -- what do you actually want to achieve with passing > O_ACCMODE to open()? > > O_ACCMODE should primarily be used as a mask to use when extracting access > mode bits from fcntl(F_GETFL) call.
It happens in setfdprm from fdutils. What they wanted to achieve with it I don't know. Setting parameters or some such. Problem is that fdutils is probably unmaintained for ten years or so. Regards, Wim. ----- w...@djo.tudelft.nl -----
