Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:13:20 -0500 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: ache@nagual.ru, imp@village.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-lib@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libtermcap pathnames.h termcap.c Message-ID: <199703241813.NAA25490@jekyll.piermont.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:48:30 PST." <97Mar24.094840pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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Bill Fenner writes: > I think a lot would be solved by having a library function like > access() that also accepts a UID. Won't work. There is a race condition between the moment you use access() or anything like it and the moment you open the file. That's why no one in their right mind uses access() any longer. This has been done over and over... sigh... Perry
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