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| author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2002-06-18 16:15:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2002-06-18 16:15:51 (GMT) |
| commit | 7f591246936a5a2b763851e3cb866be44a321d50 (patch) | |
| tree | e59b0311f4628ac2fdaa8401c310c0b392f9744c /Modules/posixmodule.c | |
| parent | ae39ddd628ace75e48d90e33b8aa5fd351dad24e (diff) | |
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Clarified documentation for os.access().
Patch contributed by Sean Reifschneider.
Closes SF patch #570618.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/posixmodule.c b/Modules/posixmodule.c index f3d951a..838e2d7 100644 --- a/Modules/posixmodule.c +++ b/Modules/posixmodule.c @@ -736,7 +736,11 @@ posix_do_stat(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, char *format, PyDoc_STRVAR(posix_access__doc__, "access(path, mode) -> 1 if granted, 0 otherwise\n\ -Test for access to a file."); +Use the real uid/gid to test for access to a path. Note that most +operations will use the effective uid/gid, therefore this routine can +be used in a suid/sgid environment to test if the invoking user has the +specified access to the path. The mode argument can be F_OK to test +existance, or the inclusive-OR of R_OK, W_OK, and X_OK."); static PyObject * posix_access(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) |