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Re: bash test builtin and test_eaccess() vs access()
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: bash test builtin and test_eaccess() vs access() |
Date: |
Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:59:00 -0500 |
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Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) |
Alan Sundell wrote:
> bash's "test" builtin can report the wrong results in many
> circumstances (e.g. read-only filesystems, noexec filesystems, ACLs,
> NFS, AFS, setuid executables, etc) because it uses stat() rather than
> access() for the unary -w, -r, -x, etc.
>
> Could the eaccess/euidaccess code from coreutils be imported into bash
> to resolve this?
I will look into it.
Chet
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