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Authored by kevans on Feb 19 2026, 5:03 PM.
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It's not at all clear why I wrote it like this, but we can do better.

I wouldn't think this really has any meaningful security implications
since the hierarchy in question can't really be modified by the guest
scripts, but it would seem to make it a little more robust.

Fixes: 6779d44bd878e3c ("bhyveload: use a dirfd to support -h")

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