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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: hfsplus filesystem allows opendir() on plain files
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 04:39:49 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 02:21:11PM -0800, Brad Boyer wrote:
> We can't fix this without either eliminating this way to open the
> resource fork

Which sould have happened long ago.  See the reiser4 discussion.  You're
breaking userspace semantic without a good reason.