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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer,alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: -x implementations
Message-ID: <1991Mar07.091123.13033@kithrup.COM>
Date: 7 Mar 91 09:11:23 GMT
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In article <668288533.3106@mindcraft.com> karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) writes:
>It would be helpful if there were a second interface that could be used
>to check file access based on the effective UID.  Adding a flag to
>access() at this point would not be an acceptable solution; it would
>break too much existing code.

SCO has an eaccess which does exactly that.  I just tried it, and it worked.
(Actually, I had a fun few minutes, because it kept telling me that I had
write permission to /etc/passwd without having to be root [I made my binary
suid root].  If occurred to me, after a while, that the file was group
writable, and, now that multiple groups work, I happen to be in the
"correct" group to write to it.  Neat...)

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