On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:25:34PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote: >It is my understanding that if some directory along the path to the >file is accessible to root but not to the effective user, access() for >a file in that directory might return 0 while exists would return 1, I would be shocked if POSIX allowed a non-root user to probe file entries under a root/700 directory... What a paradox -- when I submitted the patch to add F_OK, you said that exists() did the same thing. ;-) Sean -- "Your documents always look so good." "That's because I keep my laser-printer set on ``stun''." -- Sean Reifschneider, 1998 Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo@tummy.com> tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python
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