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    SubjectRe: silent semantic changes with reiser4
    Christoph Hellwig wrote:
    > o files as directories
    > - O_DIRECTORY opens succeed on all files on reiser4. Besides breaking
    > .htaccess handling in apache and glibc compilation this also renders
    > this flag entirely useless and opens up the races it tries to
    > prevent against cmpletely useless


    Ouch.

    I would definitely classify this as a security hole, since userland
    definitely uses O_DIRECTORY to avoid races.

    Jeff


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