From fd1baa4c34eaa8d2345ae70840090ae950992145 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 19:06:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] terminal-util: no real reason to assert on O_CREAT

That's just handle this as a normal error.
---
 src/basic/terminal-util.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/basic/terminal-util.c b/src/basic/terminal-util.c
index 43510f481..28ae5dc08 100644
--- a/src/basic/terminal-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/terminal-util.c
@@ -311,7 +311,8 @@ int open_terminal(const char *name, int mode) {
          * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/554172/comments/245
          */
 
-        assert(!(mode & O_CREAT));
+        if (mode & O_CREAT)
+                return -EINVAL;
 
         for (;;) {
                 fd = open(name, mode, 0);
-- 
2.30.2