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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: finger(1) & fingerd(8) 
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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:42:16 +0200
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:45:42 -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote:

> I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.  How does 
> access(buf, F_OK) differ from open(buf, O_RDONLY) in terms of 
> permissions in this case?  From the access(2) man page:

Are you sure access(2) checks read-only filesystems?

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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