On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 16:45:58 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > According to "man 2 open": > > O_CLOEXEC (Since Linux 2.6.23) > > So why does using this flag require 2.6.27? Who is wrong here? > If you'd actually bothered to look at the changes in question, you would have noticed that there's more syscalls than just open(2). inotify_init1() was added in 2.6.27, e.g. Not that I'd expect you to do your homework. Cheers, Julien