[Bug 262895] access(2) man page should mention softlinks

2024-05-18 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262895 --- Comment #7 from Jamie Landeg-Jones --- (In reply to Dag-Erling Smørgrav from comment #6) Fair enough. Obviously, even in my use case, there could be a potential race condition, so I suppose its use as an existence test can only be

[Bug 262895] access(2) man page should mention softlinks

2024-05-18 Thread bugzilla-noreply
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262895 --- Comment #6 from Dag-Erling Smørgrav --- OK, I think the proper fix here would be to remove the sentence about `access()` being a cheaper existence test, because it's not an existence test at all. -- You are receiving this mail