The original plan was that you only could indirect through it; not
chdir() for example. One could do the whole enchilada, but then one
would have to expect that open() could have very different effects with
and without O_DIRECTORY (and open() on directories without O_DIRECTORY
should be outlawed with prejudice.)
-hpa
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