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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: O_CREAT|O_DIRECTORY on nonexisting file with ext4 not
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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:36:46 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 01:49:26PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> Given that O_DIRECTORY is not part of POSIX, I don't think that
> POSIX-compliance is an issue here.

Actually, it is part of POSIX (the latest IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 edition):

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/open.html

(Things like openat(2) and friends were also added in this revision.)

						- Ted