In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bill Moran writes: : I'm a little confused here, if access() is such a serious security : problem that it should _never_ be used, do we now have a major problem : with a large amount of software in the base system? Access(2) can be raced. If you say access("fred") and then later open fread, between the two calls, fred may refer to different files and you would be tricked into opening a file that you shouldn't have otherwise opened. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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