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From: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: Bug in tempnam(3) function
Message-ID: <2077@polari.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 90 03:05:45 GMT
References: <433@mtndew.UUCP>
Reply-To: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Organization: PolarServ, Seattle WA
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In article <433@mtndew.UUCP> friedl@mtndew.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
|Email will get a pretty detailed note on why
|access(2) is evil.

I wouldn't go that far.  Access(2) is quite necessary for certain things.
Unfortunately, it could probably have a better name, and the manual page
(at least all the ones I've seen) doesn't do a great job of indicating
when it should and shouldn't be used, so lots of people (evidently
including whoever wrote tempnam(3) :-)) misuse it.  This doesn't mean
that access(2) is evil though.

Remember: Access(2) doesn't kill people, people kill people :-)
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP