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MFC rev 1.20 access.2

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Make the warning a bit less 'broad' then it used to be. The access
  is seems to be a problem for SUID applications, which we like to
  prevent as much as possible.

  PR: docs/39530
  Submitted by: Soren Spies <sspies at apple dot com>
  MFC After: 3 days
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remko 2008-02-10 12:28:30 +00:00
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@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
.\" @(#)access.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/1/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd September 21, 2001
.Dd December 8, 2007
.Dt ACCESS 2
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -144,6 +144,15 @@ The
.Fn eaccess
system call
likewise may be subject to races if used inappropriately.
.Pp
.Fn access
remains useful for providing clues to users as to whether operations
make sense for particular filesystem objects (e.g. 'delete' menu
item only highlighted in a writable folder ... avoiding interpretation
of the st_mode bits that the application might not understand --
e.g. in the case of AFS). It also allows a cheaper file existance
test than
.Ns Xr stat 2 .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr chmod 2 ,
.Xr intro 2 ,