Re: udev and devfs - The final word

[Olaf Hering <olh _at_ xxxxxxx>]

 On Wed, Jan 07, viro _at_ parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:

> 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).

Thanks! I will play with it and see what current tools use.

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