On 04/05/10 03:19, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-05-03, Baz Walter<baz...@ftml.net> wrote:
On 03/05/10 19:12, Grant Edwards wrote:
Even though the user provided a legal and openable path?
that sounds like an operational definition to me: what's the
difference between "legal" and "openable"?
Legal as in meets the syntactic requirements for a path (not sure if
there really are any requirements other than it being a
null-terminated string). Openable meaning that it denotes a path file
that exists and for which the caller has read permissions on the file
and execute premissions on the directories within the path.
openable is not the same as accessible. a file can still openable, even
though a user may not have permission to access it.
a better definition of "legal path" might be whether any useful
information can be gained from a stat() call on it.
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