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Re: [HELP] stat(), file permission, r/w access : i'm LOST :(
- To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
- Subject: Re: [HELP] stat(), file permission, r/w access : i'm LOST :(
- From: "Lassi A. Tuura" <lat@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:03:17 +0100 (CET)
- cc: Sebastien Barre <Sebastien.Barre@utc.fr>, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
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On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
|> Fixing the bug in the source is also possible. I know Corinna has been
|> doing some work with making permissions track more closely with UNIX style.
|> I'm not sure whether his changes will help in this arena...
If somebody is going to fix this, I would strongly encourage to fix it
in a way that uses `access' to determine file permissions, not something
based on `stat'.
This would have the benefit of making things work on the AFS filesystem
as well, where using getuid and st_uid (or similar) to determine
accessibility is meaningless: AFS uses ACLs and tokens that determine
access rights, and the application has no way to know either of these
unless it links against the AFS/Kerberos libraries. Please make the
scheme trust the operating system (or network file system deamons), and
not to build additional logic that fails with ACL-based systems. For
example, GNU test program has this bug -- it depends on `stat' instead
of `access'.
Presumably Win32 system calls responds like AFS with ACLs -- call the
right function (`access'?) and it will tell you whether you can access
the file or not. Alternatively, `stat' should use the security API to
fill in the st_mode fields correctly, but I am not sure this will work
with networked file systems that implement their own security rules.
Cheers,
//lat
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