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Re: Problem with 0.95a and 0.12 "mount"

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From: Linus Benedict Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Re: Problem with 0.95a and 0.12 "mount"
Date: Friday, March 20, 1992 - 8:16 am

Upgrade mount and umount to the 0.95(a) versions: the 0.12 version opens

/etc/mtab~ with O_CREAT | O_EXCL, but no O_WROLNY, so writing to the

file will fail (and mount doesn't check for it). The 0.12 kernel didn't

check for the open-mode when writing, so it worked for that, but 0.95a

does.


                Linus
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