> most filesystems have an underlying file handle which allow opening the file directly (see name_to_handle_at(2)/open_by_handle_at(2) on linux, but other syste

> most filesystems have an underlying file handle which allow opening the file directly (see name_to_handle_at(2)/open_by_handle_at(2) on linux, but other systems also have something similar it's just not necessarily exposed to userspace) On Windows, access to this is controlled by the confusingly named "Bypass traverse checking" (aka SeChangeNotifyPrivilege) permission (see for instance https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/the-bypass-traverse-checking-or-is-it-the-change-notify/ba-p/723428 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-blog-archive/... for some information about it; I recall once reading an article from either Raymond Chen or Larry Osterman explaining the naming of that permission, but can't find it at the moment).