Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> I think access's reputation as something to avoid caused us not to look
> at it. My old BSD manual says about access():
> CAVEAT
> The access() function should be used rarely, if ever. Specifically,
> access() should never be used by any program whose user real and effec-
> tive IDs, or group real and effective IDs, differ.
But we force those to be the same in main.c. Anyway there are several
other uses of access() in the code ...
regards, tom lane