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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: ache@nagual.ru, imp@village.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libtermcap pathnames.h termcap.c
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:48:30 PST
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I think a lot would be solved by having a library function like
access() that also accepts a UID.  Then the don't-let-people-access-
files-in-a-setuid-program-that-they-wouldn't-normally-have-access-to
problem, instead of being solved in N different setuid programs,
could be solved once.

  Bill