Den tis 2 jan. 2024 kl 14:20 skrev Joe Orton <jor...@redhat.com>: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 02:00:00PM +0100, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: > > My idea was to incrementally improve the code but maybe a better way > > is to switch to access() completely. access() seems to be widely > > available but I will have to read up on the setuid properties to make > > sure we don't change how things has worked in the past. > > > > Background: Subversion has the ability to say a file "needs locking", if > a > > particular user/working copy doesn't hold the "lock" the file should be > > read-only (and inversely if the user holds the lock the file should be > > writeable). We check for W access using the code above and then update > the > > permissions accordingly. > > Makes sense. Yeah, I would recommend switching to using access(,W_OK) or > access(,X_OK) on Unix, I'm not aware of any portability concerns with > that. > > Regards, Joe > > Thanks Joe! We ended up changing to access().
Kind regards, Daniel
