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From: flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: getcwd() and friends.
Message-ID: <FLEE.89Apr5070414@shire.cs.psu.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 89 11:04:14 GMT
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In article <12625@swan.ulowell.edu>,
   arosen@hawk.ulowell.edu (MFHorn) writes:
>Why can't the kernel check access permissions *at the time* of the
>fchdir() call just like it does for chdir() and open()?

This is fine (in fact SunOS4.0 does this), except you can chdir() to
directories you can't open().  Unless you extend open(), fchdir() is
less functional than chdir().
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