Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Jeff Garzik]

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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