Re: Fwd: [bug #17877] Invalid "No such file or directory" error on filesystem without stable inode numbers

[Miklos Szeredi]

> So I think the problem we are seeing is not for traversing up the
> tree, but for traversing down it.  In which case the check is not
> needed (if O_NOFOLLOW is also available).

And if O_NOFOLLOW is unavailable it would still make sense to move the
stat and the open as close to each other as possible for traversing
down a directory.

Miklos