access(2) (was: Writing to A NON-Existing File in "C")

Michael T Sullivan sullivan at vsi.UUCP
Sat Apr 23 10:54:36 AEST 1988


In article <594 at vsi.UUCP>, sullivan at vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes:
> 
> file exists, it's just not the best/right way.  If you can't give an
> reason any better than "what's the harm" (and the stat people give good
> reasons not to) then just use access().
                                ^^^^^^


That should be stat().  I'm such a weenie sometimes.



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