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Date:      Sat, 31 Mar 2001 11:30:54 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Cc:        Paul Herman <pherman@frenchfries.net>, Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Security problems with access(2)? 
Message-ID:  <200103311832.f2VIW9O14167@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:23:38 %2B0100." <20010331192338.A45841@walton.maths.tcd.ie> 
References:  <20010331192338.A45841@walton.maths.tcd.ie>  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103311945010.13408-100000@husten.security.at12.de> <200103311819.f2VIJOO13998@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <20010331192338.A45841@walton.maths.tcd.ie> David Malone writes:
: Don't you need fstat to do this? (In which case you may as well just
: open the file and fstat it anyway).

There are times when you are traversing the tree that you need to stat 
before and after you open.

Warner

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