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From: "Seva Tonkonoh" <seva_t@dslextreme.com>
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Hello,

I am interested in the following problem:

My process is running as root.
I want to check if some user is allowed to access a file.
Can I use ACL API to achieve that, or is there any other way?

The process is multithreaded, so I am not sure if I can use setuid().

Thanks,
Seva Tonkonoh