Re: test -x should use faccessat, not stat

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Blake <ebb9@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This report was originally raised on the cygwin list:
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00239.html
> 
> In short, in the presence of ACLs, dash's implementation of test -r, test -w, 
> and test -x gives incorrect answers, when the current user has permissions to 
> access a file that were granted by ACLs but not by the current stat() 
> permissions.  dash should be using faccessat(,AT_EACCESS) (or 
> eaccess/euidaccess) if available, rather than stat(), to determine whether a 
> file is accessible.

What does bash to in this case?

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