Re: [4/5] Add option for hardlinkable cache of extracted blobs

From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Date: Apr 18, 2005, 01:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20050417182422.06dd7379.pj@sgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0504171600310.30848-100000@iabervon.org>

> So it shouldn't complain about a filename which you're allowed to try to
> stat, even if there's nothing there.

I'm not sure what 'nothing there' means to you.

To me, it means 'no file there', so no you would not be allowed to stat it - and should fail ENOENT.

> And it would depend on the privs of
> the wrong user in looking at the path.

Yup.

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