Re: cp failure to NetApp directory with CIFS security model

[Paul Eggert]

Clarence Donath <address@hidden> writes:

> open("/p/inet/cron", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = -1
> EPERM (Operation not permitted)

> The resultant destination file is created, but left empty by 'cp'.

Wow, open() creates the file but then returns -1?  That's a serious
bug in the OS or the filer.

I don't offhand see an easy way to work around this bug in coreutils,
without introducing some performance problems (or security holes) on
non-buggy systems.