modbus-rtu: don't use O_EXCL when opening the device #760
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Quote from 'man 2 open':
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In general, the behavior of O_EXCL is undefined if it is used without O_CREAT. ...
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Since we don't create the device file here - we just want to open (hopefully) existing ones - let's simply drop this flag to be on the safe side.