Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265526AbUAGN1B (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:27:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265527AbUAGN1B (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:27:01 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:36494 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265526AbUAGN1A (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2004 08:27:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 13:26:56 +0000 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Olaf Hering Cc: Rob Love , Nathan Conrad , Pascal Schmidt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: udev and devfs - The final word Message-ID: <20040107132656.GM4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <18Cz7-7Ep-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <20031231192306.GG25389@kroah.com> <1072901961.11003.14.camel@fur> <20031231220107.GC11032@bungled.net> <1072909218.11003.24.camel@fur> <20031231225536.GP4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040107101559.GA22770@suse.de> <20040107111832.GL4176@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040107130036.GA3186@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040107130036.GA3186@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 497 Lines: 11 On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:00:36PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: > Ok, it was mkfs.minix and an older distro. mkfs should simply pass O_EXCL to open(). Which is what you really want and yes, it should work on 2.6 (not sure if it got backported on 2.4). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/