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From: lfk@mbio.med.upenn.edu (Lee Kolakowski)
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Subject: access()
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Date: 8 Feb 89 22:08:36 GMT
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What does ANSI say about the filename argument passed to the access()
function? Especially with regard to directorys.

For example, in RCS there are statements like
	access("./RCS/", 000)

But under a supposedly ANSI compiler (MSC 5.1) these lines return an
error that says RCS/ does not exist when RCS/ is fine.

If the filename is "RCS" everything is just fine, and the proper
response is returned.

Is this the correct behavior?

Thanks!

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Frank Kolakowski 
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