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From: ripley@netmbx.UUCP (Hans-Ch. Eckert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: -x implementations
Message-ID: <1805@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 91 14:30:45 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.153242.12335@convex.com> <8896@ <19017@rpp386.cactus.org>
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In article <19017@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
]In article <8896@star.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
]>If your effective uid is that of user `foo', whereas your real uid is
]>that of user `bar':
]>
]>	$ ls -l mailbox
]>	-rw-------  1 foo          1079 Jan 30 19:26 mailbox
]>	$ test -r mailbox || echo 'Huh?  Is mailbox unreadable for me?'
]>
]>Access(2), a sick system call.  (I _know_ it uses the real uid on
]>purpose.)
You mean like this?

ripley% su alg053

(ripley)alg053% ls -l /usr/spool/mail/alg053
-rw-------  1 alg053       5940 Feb  2 02:32 /usr/spool/mail/alg053
(ripley)alg053% test -r alg053 || echo 'What happens?'
(ripley)alg053%

Seems like SunOS 4.1 does it right...

]The question test(1) is asking is wrong.  test is supposed to return
]whether or not it =is= readable, not whether it =should= be readable.
At least on a sun it returns that the file is readable, which is true.

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