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@ 2014-09-18 12:25 Paolo Bonzini
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From: Paolo Bonzini @ 2014-09-18 12:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
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  Cc: Jiri Popelka

Hi,

the euidaccess and faccessat(AT_EACCESS) functions are emulated in glibc
and only look at the file's uid/gid.  They do not take ACLs into
account, and this can cause subtle bugs.  This should be noted in the
BUGS section.

Also, the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag to faccessat currently will not work
if specified alone, because Linux does not have an laccess() system
call.  It works if specified together with AT_EACCESS, modulo the above
ACL bug of course.

Paolo
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