Comment 14 for bug 1239682

well, that puts us in a rather difficult position, because it is inconceivable that we would allow the file open operation to behave differently than the file new operation, when they are both operating on the same file. The new code for the file open operation has been copied directly from the file new code to ensure that they both behave the same. This simultaneously solves two rather nasty bugs that had been observed previously during studying this bug.