On Thursday 05 March 2009 18:04:42 Joshua Tolley wrote:
> As an aside, is access() adequately portable, ok to use within the
> backend, etc.? I just sort of took a shot in the dark.
Using access() is usually not a good idea. In this case it would be better to
check the return of the actual open() call for EPERM (or the equivalent for
fopen(), whatever is used).