[3.5.x] Implemented safe_open() in order to avoid symlink race conditions. #1116
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It makes sure that we do not follow unsafe symlinks, that is a link
that belongs to a user, but has a target owned by a different user.
It does this in a way that avoids race conditions (between testing if
a file is a link, and opening that file, there is a small window of
opportunity).
Also implements safe_chdir(), to also safeguard chdir() operations.
Fixes issue #3693.
(cherry picked from commit 995b9d1)
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