> - I hate the -H stuff. If you really want to see what is in a CDF,
>   you can always chmod it back; then you don't need another system
>   call or access method.

Oh?

So if I want to look inside a CDF I risk a race condition where some other
process bites referencing the CDF during the few milliseconds that I've
chmod'ed it back to a plain file?  Gross.