From: "Oleg O. Ossovitskii" <oleg@kgpa.ru>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mohammed Khalid Ansari <khalid@ncst.ernet.in>
Subject: Re[2]: Misc C question
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:51:58 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4512499703.20020620115158@kgpa.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206201333470.26820-100000@soochak.ncst.ernet.in>
Hello Mohammed,
Thursday, June 20, 2002, 11:05:58 AM, you wrote:
MKA> The simple C function is
MKA> int access(const char *pathname, int mode);
MKA> to suit you needs. Read man pages to find out more.
access() isn't so useful as stat() because access() use real user ID
and real group ID, instead of EUID and EGID.
But You are right - for checking for existense of file access()
function is simpler than stat() or lstat().
Best regards, Oleg O. Ossovitskii
programming engineer, KGPA Ltd.
tel: +7(0112)46-23-40, fax: +7(0112)43-64-96
mailto:oleg@kgpa.ru, icq# 33366588
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-20 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-20 2:46 Misc C question xmp
2002-06-20 3:10 ` mike
2002-06-20 4:44 ` xmp
2002-06-20 5:08 ` mike
2002-06-20 12:46 ` William N. Zanatta
2002-06-20 6:28 ` Oleg O. Ossovitskii
2002-06-20 8:05 ` Mohammed Khalid Ansari
2002-06-20 8:51 ` Oleg O. Ossovitskii [this message]
2002-06-20 13:23 ` Glynn Clements
2002-06-20 20:42 ` GOMEZ NOGUERA DAVIDEDUARDO
2002-06-20 21:53 ` James Stevenson
2002-06-20 23:24 ` Glynn Clements
2002-06-20 23:24 ` Glynn Clements
2002-06-21 0:07 ` Christopher Quinn
2002-06-20 18:09 ` James Stevenson
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