> Kristian Koehntopp wrote:
> > b. Is it possible?
>
> Yes if you define an `O_NONE' flag -- i.e. as opposed to O_RDONLY etc.
>
> All the problems with side effects due to open and lack of permissions
> are avoided by that: O_NONE means "return me a cookie, don't do anything
> else".
but you still have to mark that file being `opened' (in use),
or how do you avoid race conditions between open() and chmod() ?
Harald
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