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Re: access()
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:15:34PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> However bash already uses access() when AFS is defined. Thus it
> would be a 1/2 line patch in bash (test.c and findcmd.c) to also
> use access() for Cygwin.
> - #if defined (AFS)
> + #if defined (AFS) || defined (__CYGWIN__)
> That would be a significant improvement, IMO. What do you think?
Yes, I'll change that. Thanks for the hint.
> 2003-02-21 Pierre Humblet <pierre dot humblet at ieee dot org>
>
> * autoload.cc (AccessCheck): Add.
> (DuplicateToken): Add.
> * security.h (check_file_access): Declare.
> * syscalls.cc (access): Convert path to Windows, check existence
> and readonly attribute. Call check_file_access instead of acl_access.
> * security.cc (check_file_access): Create.
> * sec_acl (acl_access): Delete.
I'm impressed. Works nice with no more handcrafted messing around
with ACLs.
Applied.
Thanks,
Corinna
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