Re: [fuse-devel] What to do for a fuse create request where the file already exists?

[Aaron J. <ja...@go...>]

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:30 PM, Miklos Szeredi <mi...@sz...> wrote:
> If it's a distributed fs, where a file can just appear, then assuming
> O_EXCL is wrong because nothing guarantees that the file won't appear
> just before ->create() is called.

Right, and so my question is: if this happens, and I return EEXIST even though
the user didn't set O_EXCL, what will the kernel do?