On Jul 8, 2016, at 10:52 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 11:59:50AM -0400, Oleg Drokin wrote: > >> "If path names a symbolic link, mkdir() shall fail and set errno to >> [EEXIST]." >> >> This sounds pretty straightforward to me, no? >> Since it does not matter that we do not have write permissions here, because >> the name already exists. > > When more than one condition applies, we have every right to return any of > them. POSIX does *NOT* specify the order of checks. Never had.
Out of curiosity, why does filename_create() delay EROFS then?
