On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Mike Blumenkrantz wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:55:27 +0200 (CEST)
> Vincent Torri <vto...@univ-evry.fr> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Mike Blumenkrantz wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:34:08 +0200
>>> Ulrich Eckhardt <dooms...@knuut.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> If you start edje_player or edje_inspector with a path to a file that
>>>> doesn't exist you get a bogus error message saying that the file doesn't
>>>> contain any groups. The attached patch uses access() to check if the
>>>> program can read the file, giving a sensible error message if not.
>>>>
>>>> I have checked the other utilities there, too, and they work, with the
>>>> exception of edje_external_inspector. I'm not sure how this one works at
>>>> all, but it seems not to take a file but a list of modules, maybe someone
>>>> with greater insight can take a look at that.
>>>>
>>>> Going through things installed under bin, I'll take a look if those behave
>>>> properly and create patches for those, too, if this one is okay.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers!
>>>>
>>>> Uli
>>> I like the idea of better error messages, but using access creates a
>>> permissions loophole where the file could be switched between access() and
>>> open(). You should probably check it another way.
>>
>> ecore_file_exists ?
>>
>> Vincent
> same loophole. I suppose it's not really that big of a deal...

stop being paranoid. There are plenty of other places in the EFL where we 
do such things

Vincent

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