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Strange and Interesting System Calls
EROFS, Read-only file system

File systems name the mount point:
fopen(pathname = "/media/disk/booboo", flags = "w") failed, Read-only file system (30, EROFS) because write access was requested and pathname refers to a file on a read-only file system ("/media/disk", 42% full)

Devices are slightly different:

open(pathname = "/dev/fd0", O_RDWR, 0666) failed, Read-only file system (30, EROFS) because the floppy disk has the write protect tab set