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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: getcwd() and friends.
Message-ID: <1410@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 9 Apr 89 01:00:42 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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>For one thing, we could introduce O_CHMOD to open for mode changes.
>The open would succeed iff the opener had permission to do a chmod.

No, not worth it.  "fchmod" can - and does - already check whether you
have permission to do a "chmod".