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Re: Git 1.3.2 on Solaris

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
May 23, 2006, 18:48 UTC
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On Tue, 23 May 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I absolutely agree. That is why the OS has a "access()" system call. It's 
> there to ask the OS whether the file is executable (or readable/writable).

Side note: I'm not claiming that "access()" is a wonderful thing. I do agree that we might want to replace it with something else inside of git, if only because of portability concerns.

So I'm really just ranting my normal "standards lawyerese doesn't mean much" rant..

(access() also has other isses: X_OK obviously means different things for directories and for regular files, so quite often you need to do a stat() on the thing _anyway_ just to determine whether it's "executable in the 'execve()' sense" or "executable in the 'path lookup' sense").

		Linus
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  2. Jason RiedyMay 17, 2006
  3. Linus TorvaldsMay 17, 2006
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  5. Linus TorvaldsMay 17, 2006
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  7. Linus TorvaldsMay 17, 2006
  8. Stefan PfetzingMay 17, 2006
  9. Linus TorvaldsMay 17, 2006
  10. Jason RiedyMay 17, 2006
  11. Stefan PfetzingMay 23, 2006
  12. Jason RiedyMay 23, 2006
  13. Stefan PfetzingMay 23, 2006
  14. Linus TorvaldsMay 23, 2006
  15. Edgar ToernigMay 23, 2006
  16. Linus TorvaldsMay 23, 2006
  17. Edgar ToernigMay 23, 2006
  18. Jason RiedyMay 23, 2006
  19. Linus TorvaldsMay 23, 2006
  20. Linus TorvaldsMay 23, 2006
  21. Stefan PfetzingMay 26, 2006
  22. Ryan AndersonMay 17, 2006
  23. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2006
  24. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2006
  25. builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep.Junio C Hamano, May 17, 2006
  26. Linus TorvaldsMay 17, 2006
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  28. Bertrand JacquinMay 17, 2006
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  32. Linus TorvaldsMay 17, 2006
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  34. Stefan PfetzingMay 17, 2006
  35. Junio C HamanoMay 17, 2006
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