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doc: clarify O_EXCL text in fs.md

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PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/34096
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Ujjwal Sharma <ryzokuken@disroot.org>
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@ -5841,10 +5841,10 @@ are available from `fs.constants`. On Windows, flags are translated to
their equivalent ones where applicable, e.g. `O_WRONLY` to `FILE_GENERIC_WRITE`,
or `O_EXCL|O_CREAT` to `CREATE_NEW`, as accepted by `CreateFileW`.
The exclusive flag `'x'` (`O_EXCL` flag in open(2)) ensures that path is newly
created. On POSIX systems, path is considered to exist even if it is a symlink
to a non-existent file. The exclusive flag may or may not work with network
file systems.
The exclusive flag `'x'` (`O_EXCL` flag in open(2)) causes the operation to
return an error if the path already exists. On POSIX, if the path is a symbolic
link, using `O_EXCL` returns an error even if the link is to a path that does
not exist. The exclusive flag may or may not work with network file systems.
On Linux, positional writes don't work when the file is opened in append mode.
The kernel ignores the position argument and always appends the data to