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From: chrubis@suse.cz
To: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
Cc: vasily.isaenko@oracle.com, ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH] device-drivers/acpi/ltp_acpi_cpufreq: fix checking for write permission
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 15:39:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140512133919.GD4741@rei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399468619-27317-1-git-send-email-alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>

Hi!
> If access(some_file, W_OK) is executed by root it will return success even
> if the file has read-only permission. Use 'open' to test sysfs file for write
> permission.

This may be worth of a paragraph in Common Problems section in
Test-Writing-Guidelines.

The patch itself is OK.

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Cyril Hrubis
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      reply	other threads:[~2014-05-12 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-07 13:16 [LTP] [PATCH] device-drivers/acpi/ltp_acpi_cpufreq: fix checking for write permission Alexey Kodanev
2014-05-12 13:39 ` chrubis [this message]

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