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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1606150906320.6874@cbobk.fhfr.pm>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:09:13 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To: Wim Osterholt <wim@....tudelft.nl>
cc: viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: disfunctional floppy driver in kernels 4.5, 4.6 and 4.7
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016, Wim Osterholt wrote:
> Surprising or not, the thusly compiled kernel ran fine and I could
> handle floppies like before! (open(/dev/fd0,O_ACCMODE) succeeds.)
Thanks for testing.
Now next question -- what do you actually want to achieve with passing
O_ACCMODE to open()?
O_ACCMODE should primarily be used as a mask to use when extracting access
mode bits from fcntl(F_GETFL) call.
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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