As you say, there's still a race. It's better to leave a gaping hole which
obviously needs fixing than a subtle one, so Linus wouldn't accept it.
How about:
lock_vfs()
stat()
open()
unlock_vfs()
As I said, it's only useful in the core dump case, but that's the original
context of this discussion. We can worry about safe temp file creation later.
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