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From: "Oleg Verych" <olecom@gmail.com>
Subject: euidaccess() as syscall
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 17:59:36 +0100
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Hallo.

Why there's no euidaccess() syscall (most obvious use is in `test` or
`[` utility)?

Instead euiaccess() in glibc and access() in kernel are doing unnecessary uid
shuffling.

Thanks.
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