Re: AW: O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY on nonexisting file expected behaviour?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg () fifthhorseman net>]

On 11/26/2014 10:28 AM, Fiedler Roman wrote:
> > Von: Eric Blake [mailto:eblake () redhat com]
> > But if it succeeds, and did NOT create a directory, then it is in
> > violation of POSIX.
>
> Thanks for the pointer to the POSIX documentation. So it seems to be a 
> POSIX-violation, at least on "Linux version 3.2.0-69-generic".
>
> My test program was:
>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv) {
>   int fd;
>   struct stat statBuf;
>   int result;
>
>   fd=open("xxx", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY, 0600);
>   result=fstat(fd, &statBuf);
>   if(result) {
>     fprintf(stderr, "Stat failed\n");
>     return(1);
>   }
>   fprintf(stderr, "New element type is %d\n", S_ISDIR(fd));
>   return(0);
> }

I just tried the above on debian's 3.17-1-amd64 (3.17-1~exp1, and it
produces:

New element type is 0

So if it's a violation, it hasn't been fixed between 3.2 and 3.17.

        --dkg

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