Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 10:03:46PM CEST, I got a letter where Daniel Barkalow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:25:17PM CEST, I got a letter > > where Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> told me that... > > > Petr wrote: > > > > BTW, I'd just use access(F_OK) instead of stat() it I don't care about > > > > > > I recommend _only_ using it when you require exactly the above real vs. > > > effective id behaviour. > > > > Does this distinction have any effect when doing F_OK? > > Actually, the documentation I've got says: > > "F_OK requests checking whether merely testing for the existence of the > file would be allowed (this depends on the permissions of the directories > in the path to the file, as given in path-name.)" > > So it shouldn't complain about a filename which you're allowed to try to > stat, even if there's nothing there. And it would depend on the privs of > the wrong user in looking at the path.
The documentation I've got says: "R_OK, W_OK and X_OK request checking whether the file exists and has read, write and execute permissions, respectively. F_OK just requests checking for the existence of the file." And IEEE1003.1 agrees: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/access.html -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
