This is something I think we should have added a long time ago: a
flavour of open() that safely ensures the inode we are opening is a
regular file, before we open it. It does this by means of pinning the
inode via O_PATH first, and after verification actually opening it.
This ports some code over to this, but sooner or later we should
probably use this a lot more, so that we don't accidentally open weird
stuff such as device nodes or pipes, where we should not.