> Why not? The O_NOFOLLOW is distinguishable, so NOFOLLOW semantics
> would be enabled, and RDWR is distinguishable, so RDWR mode would
> be enabled.
Because it implies O_CREAT - so if the file doesn't exist, we will
creat it. Therefore this can't be reliaed upon to fail whena file
isn't there, something that will break apps.
-cw
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