René Scharfe a7439d0f9d xopen: explicitly report creation failures ...

If the flags O_CREAT and O_EXCL are both given then open(2) is supposed
to create the file and error out if it already exists.  The error
message in that case looks like this:

	fatal: could not open 'foo' for writing: File exists

Without further context this is confusing: Why should the existence of
the file pose a problem?  Isn't that a requirement for writing to it?

Add a more specific error message for that case to tell the user that we
actually don't expect the file to preexist, so the example becomes:

	fatal: unable to create 'foo': File exists

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2021-08-25 14:39:06 -07:00

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