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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: finger(1) & fingerd(8) 
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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:54:04 +0200
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:50:54 +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:

> > Are you sure access(2) checks read-only filesystems?
> 
> I've just checked that. Yes, it does.

Okay, I think perhaps my superstition comes from real issues with
access(1) vs test(1) rather than any issues with access(2) vs open(2).

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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