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| author | Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com> | 2005-10-03 05:13:46 (GMT) |
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| committer | Neal Norwitz <nnorwitz@gmail.com> | 2005-10-03 05:13:46 (GMT) |
| commit | 92ff693eb1a967643c650366abe032aee5164945 (patch) | |
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| parent | 708e51a6b1e995ddfe9e15947dc02e4078c6d01a (diff) | |
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Fix SF bug #991735, os.access reports true for read-only directories. Will backport
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index 2fbecfa..3662a46 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -692,6 +692,11 @@ Availability: Macintosh, \UNIX, Windows. open a file before actually doing so using \function{open()} creates a security hole, because the user might exploit the short time interval between checking and opening the file to manipulate it.} + +\note{I/O operations may fail even when \function{access()} +indicates that they would succeed, particularly for operations +on network filesystems which may have permissions semantics +beyond the usual \POSIX{} permission-bit model.} \end{funcdesc} \begin{datadesc}{F_OK} |