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Date:      Sat, 18 May 2024 23:00:46 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 262895] access(2) man page should mention softlinks
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--- Comment #7 from Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie@catflap.org> ---
(In reply to Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav from comment #6)

Fair enough. Obviously, even in my use case, there could be a potential race
condition, so I suppose its use as an existence test can only be considered=
 to
give historical information.

Might it be an idea when you remove that line to suggest in its place what
would be the best alternative to use? I think some people will be more like=
ly
to follow the security advice if they are given an alternative!

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