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| author | pjd <pjd@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-01-07 17:32:16 +0000 |
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| committer | pjd <pjd@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-01-07 17:32:16 +0000 |
| commit | 39a9779535fa3d6e03f70d09cd9a766cfbbd5b42 (patch) | |
| tree | 76cfc46aed1644d004436898f5598d494b7d6402 /lib/libc | |
| parent | bbdd96d01adb92a00991f7a0367747c774d36e52 (diff) | |
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Prefer "to be modified" over "to be opened for writing".
This is quite tricky situation, because we allow to open a file with
O_RDONLY|O_TRUNC. O_TRUNC modifies a file, but we actually don't open
it for writing. EISDIR is also returned when we try to open a directory
O_RDONLY|O_TRUNC, which is correct.
POSIX says that "The result of using O_TRUNC with O_RDONLY is undefined.",
we choose to accept it (Solaris did the same), that's why "to be modified"
seems more accurate to me.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/open.2 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/open.2 b/lib/libc/sys/open.2 index 0496ce0..e56ddc0 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/open.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/open.2 @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ does not permit writing. Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. .It Bq Er EISDIR The named file is a directory, and the arguments specify -it is to be opened for writing. +it is to be modified. .It Bq Er EROFS The named file resides on a read-only file system, and the file is to be modified. |
