> From: Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> > Cc: Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> > Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 19:11:25 +0200 > > +@item > +This function does not support the @code{X_OK} mode on some platforms: > +MSVC 14.
This says MSVC, but the code will do the same on MinGW, right? > +int > +access (const char *file, int mode) > +{ > + if ((mode & X_OK) != 0) > + mode = (mode & ~X_OK) | R_OK; > + return _access (file, mode); This implementation is IMO less useful than it could be: it could also look at the file-name extension and see if it's one of the known executable extensions. Thanks.