From 849b0707079e3ba676e2e5407322f20f14f8b076 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:06:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add comment to explain why O_EXCL and O_TRUNC can be ignored
 in openFlagsToCreateFileFlags() in certain cases.

---
 src/port/open.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/port/open.c b/src/port/open.c
index a413176e3a9..f68b54cb6b3 100644
--- a/src/port/open.c
+++ b/src/port/open.c
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  *
  * Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2007, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/open.c,v 1.18 2007/01/05 22:20:02 momjian Exp $
+ * $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/port/open.c,v 1.19 2007/02/13 02:06:22 momjian Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ openFlagsToCreateFileFlags(int openFlags)
 {
 	switch (openFlags & (O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_EXCL))
 	{
+		/* O_EXCL is meaningless without O_CREAT */
 		case 0:
 		case O_EXCL:
 			return OPEN_EXISTING;
@@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ openFlagsToCreateFileFlags(int openFlags)
 		case O_CREAT:
 			return OPEN_ALWAYS;
 
+		/* O_EXCL is meaningless without O_CREAT */
 		case O_TRUNC:
 		case O_TRUNC | O_EXCL:
 			return TRUNCATE_EXISTING;
@@ -39,6 +41,7 @@ openFlagsToCreateFileFlags(int openFlags)
 		case O_CREAT | O_TRUNC:
 			return CREATE_ALWAYS;
 
+		/* O_TRUNC is meaningless with O_CREAT */
 		case O_CREAT | O_EXCL:
 		case O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_EXCL:
 			return CREATE_NEW;
-- 
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