[issue12760] Add create mode to open()
Antoine Pitrou
report at bugs.python.org
Thu Aug 18 16:19:17 CEST 2011
Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
> Well, I'd rather have this flag called 'x', to be consistent with
> glibc's fopen():
>
> """
> c (since glibc 2.3.3)
> Do not make the open operation, or subsequent read and write
> operations, thread cancellation points.
>
> x Open the file exclusively (like the O_EXCL flag of
> open(2)). If the
> file already exists, fopen() fails, and sets errno to
> EEXIST. This
> flag is ignored for fdopen().
Yeah, but I think "exclusively" is quite misleading since it does not
perform any locking of any kind. Also, I don't think we'll ever
integrate the glibc's "c" option in io.open().
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