Re: udev and devfs - The final word

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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).
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