On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 05:59:36PM +0100, Oleg Verych wrote: > Hallo. > > Why there's no euidaccess() syscall (most obvious use is in `test` or > `[` utility)? > > Instead euiaccess() in glibc and access() in kernel are doing unnecessary uid > shuffling. Are there any programs which care? Do you have a benchmark that might show an improvement if we added an euidaccess() syscall? My impression was that most programs ignore the access() family of syscalls and just try to do the open and cope with the failure. They have to anyway, since the file could have changed permission between the call to access() and the call to open(). -- Intel are signing my paycheques ... these opinions are still mine "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
