On 5/28/07, Pavel Cahyna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:16:48PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > There are open(2) flags to prevent all of those headaches that I can > think of (O_NOFOLLOW|O_NONBLOCK|O_NOCTTY should do it, in fact)
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Opening a device file can cause tapes to be rewound, reading of partition tables from disks and possibly other strange effects.
I *think* not with O_NONBLOCK... also, if monotone ever sees a device file, something has gone terribly wrong. zw _______________________________________________ Monotone-devel mailing list Monotone-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monotone-devel
