On 3/27/10 1:47 AM, Johan Hattne wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.1
> Patch Level: 2
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> The bash built-in test command fails to correctly report executable
> status for non-executable files when run by root on FreeBSD. On
> FreeBSD, bash calls eaccess(2) to find the executable status, but
> according to the man page "even if a process's real or effective user
> has appropriate privileges and indicates success for X_OK, the file may
> not actually have execute permission bits set". The attached patch is
> based on source from FreeBSD's stand-alone test,
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/bin/test/test.c.
So now we can trust access/eaccess when they fail, but not when they report
success. Why do designers keep stuffing things like ACL checks into
eaccess, requiring its use? What a fundamentally flawed design.
Chet
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