Re: [PATCH] open: O_DIRECTORY and O_CREAT together should fail

> > Well yes.  But I don't think anybody is using it, and if so they are
> > clearly breaking the rules in man open(2):
> 
> Be liberal in what you accept and all such...  Everything else aside,
> why bother?

To conform to well defined semantics?

It just bathers me, that you can get a non-directory file descriptor
with O_DIRECTORY.

Miklos
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