Either a housekeeping file from that VM, or a similarly named one being edited from a third VM.
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ char *get_filename()
void copy_file(char *filename)
{
- int fd = open(filename, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0600);
+ int fd = open(filename, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0600);
if (fd < 0) {
perror("open file");
exit(1);