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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] a corner case of open(2)
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 08:05:50PM +0200, Cedric Blancher wrote:
> Existing UNIX behaviour is better. Also, for open() a directory,
> remember that int fd=open(), fchdir(fd) must work.

What's to remember?  That part is quite orthogonal to what I'm talking about...