Re: Git open calls fail on NFS-mounted NTFS volume

Kai Lanz [off-list ref] writes:

There are several places in the code where git calls open() with the
flag
O_EXCL. This causes a problem for us when the current directory is on an
NFS-mounted NTFS volume shared by an NAS fileserver.
...
Git version is 1.6.5.3, running on x86_64 RHEL-4, kernel 2.6.9-89.

I do not use nor have access to RHEL, but does this ring a bell?

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=524520