On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 11:18:09AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul
>Herman writes:
> : Shouldn't the stat(2) manpage then also carry the same warning that
> : access(2) has (apparently dating back to 4.4BSD-Lite)? ...or maybe
> : even a suggestion to use fstat(2) instead...
>
> No. stat can be used safely. In fact, it can even be used to detect
> when the old switch-er-ooo has taken place on file systems that
> conform to the POSIX standard. However, it does take some care to use
> it safely.
Don't you need fstat to do this? (In which case you may as well just
open the file and fstat it anyway).
David.
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