Re: Security problems with access(2)?

[David O'Brien]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:55:23AM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> Many years ago I implemented a new interface that I called
> eaccess() which replicated the work of access, but tested
> against the effective uid and gid.  I'd like to see that
> introduced more widely.

That still isn't suffient (and even more scary) unless the parameter is a
file handle or FILE pointer.  We need an faccess() call, plain and
simple.

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