On 30 November 2016 at 15:28, Giacomo Tesio <giacomo@tesio.it> wrote:

> I will use the new create syscall (without OEXCL support) when I need such
> level of control and use ocreate with OEXCL


Perhaps I'm confused. I thought OEXCL was just the same as the 9P create,
which is what you were trying to get.
With OEXCL set, it tries Tcreate; if that fails, it stops, and doesn't try
open-with-truncate etc.