of course!

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <4526 at ski.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
>In article <17264 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>\We know all of the initial path exists because of the first access()
>\call.
>
>Can you say `race condition'?

Any number of suitably paranoid conditions exist.

>	isadir(char *path)
>	{
>		char dir[PATH_MAX];
>
>		strcpy(dir, path);
>		strcat(dir, "/.");
>
>		return access(dir, 0);
>	}

On the other hand, not all file systems are going to contain `.' and
`..'.  However, all file systems in the UNIX domain do include files
with names like `x' inside of subdirectories ;-)
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