[OpenAFS] open() with O_EXCL in AFS
Jeffrey Hutzelman
jhutz@cmu.edu
Fri, 12 Sep 2003 14:18:49 -0400
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> I got a couple of hits searching google on this, but I was hoping to get a
> definitive answer.
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> Does OpenAFS support open(2) with O_EXCL? According to the open()
> manpage, NFS does not.
Reading the code (particularly, afs/VNOPS/afs_vnop_create.c), it appears
that yes, the OpenAFS cache manager does support O_EXCL correctly.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
Sr. Research Systems Programmer
School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA