[erlang-questions] Why there is no way to open file with O_EXCL mode?

[Tuncer Ayaz]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Alexander Zhukov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Man page for file module do not lists 'excl' as a possible mode to
> open/2 function.
>
> As I understood it's an old problem. But what I do not understood
> completely is that
>
>           why there is no 'excl' mode?
>
> Really I'm very interested in getting an answer to the question.

Michael Santos wrote a patch for this and it's currently included
in the 'pu' branch. It may end up in R14.