access system call broken?

[Clifford Spencer]

In v7 and 4.2, with the possible exception of
write access, the access system call always returns
success for the super user. this seems wrong
to me. whether one is super user or not, if execute bits
are not set, that's all she wrote. any wisdom as to why
a call to check execute permission (i.e access(filename, 01))
should return 0 for a plain file with no execute permissions?
				
				cliff
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