Why is that?
What are the arguments against making adding a permission_uid()
function, with the uid a parameter? What are the reasons against
adding a syscall to test which permissions a user has for a file
or path?
Daemons like Samba now need to fork(), and change owner
to tested permissions. It seems more reasonable to
allow root to test permissions via a system call.
I have heard that this question has been asked in the past,
with no response.
Andreas
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Andreas Gruenbacher, Vienna University of Technology
a.gruenbacher@infosys.tuwien.ac.at
Contact information: http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/~agruenba
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