Re: test -x should use faccessat, not stat

[Eric Blake <ebb9@xxxxxxx>]

According to Herbert Xu on 4/2/2010 8:03 AM:
> After much deliberation (alright, I've simply been busy elsewhere :)
> I've committed this patch.
> 
> commit 1d68712ba2e439f36874c4ed1e3d9ffec177a06c
>     Note that faccessat doesn't handle ACLs when euid != uid, as
>     this case is currently implemented by glibc instead of the kernel,
>     using code similar to the existing dash test.

That faccessat bug is only true for current Linux kernels.  Cygwin
faccessat does the correct thing, even when euid != uid.

Thanks for applying this.

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Eric Blake             ebb9@xxxxxxx
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