> I've yet to here why stat then a sanity check won't work.
In the coredump case, I'm not sure - but in general it's because there's a
race condition. Someone can put the 'evil' symlink in place between the stat()
and the open().
Even in the coredump case there's a race, but presumably there's a lock
somewhere that we can use to make it seem atomic.
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