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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Is this a bug, or just a feature.
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OR the bits together.... you get O_RDWR
or am I mis-remembering..


On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, mdean wrote:

> 
> Shouldn't it be an error to call open("/dev/fd0", RD_ONLY|WR_ONLY,0)?
> I guess if your device doesn't like being read-only and write-only then it
> should look at oflags for itself? Or should this be caught at the syscall
> and rejected?
> 
> 
>