https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262895
Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@freebsd.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |d...@freebsd.org --- Comment #4 from Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@freebsd.org> --- Jamie, how exactly did you “almost get bitten” by this? `access()` etc always dereference the symbolic link because the question they answer is “what would happen if I tried to `open()` this path” and `open()` always dereferences symbolic links. Furthermore, as is already noted in the manual page, you should probably not be using `access()` at all for reasons entirely unrelated to whether or not it follows symbolic links. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.