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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