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Jamie Lokier <lfs@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> said:
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:45:42 -0400
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>

[...]

> I wrote and posted an open-by-inode extension to ext2 about a year ago.
> You simply open <fs>/.inode/<number>. But nobody was interested, so I
> guess there isn't much demand after all.

Demand is (or should be) _strongly_ negative. Open by inode allows to
completely bypass placing files in non-x directories, thus breaking
security big time.

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