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-rw-r--r-- | sys-utils/fallocate.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys-utils/fallocate.c b/sys-utils/fallocate.c index 4e8cef263..93fd3b48e 100644 --- a/sys-utils/fallocate.c +++ b/sys-utils/fallocate.c @@ -364,7 +364,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) if (offset < 0) errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("invalid offset value specified")); - fd = open(filename, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0644); + /* O_CREAT makes sense only for the default fallocate(2) behavior + * when mode is no specified and new space is allocated */ + fd = open(filename, O_RDWR | (!dig && !mode ? O_CREAT : 0), 0644); if (fd < 0) err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("cannot open %s"), filename); |