Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 16:38, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 04:35:18PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 16:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > >    - 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
> > 
> > So `find -type d' would list every file on the system?
> 
> the find I have here is using lstat and not open with O_DIRECTORY, so
> no.
> 

Ugh, how embarrassing, I completely forgot about stat().

Lee

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