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To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: Security problems with access(2)? 
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Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 11:30:54 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@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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