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2001 Apr 14
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Code to hide inaccessible files/directories
...share capibilities. As it stands,
modifying dir.c and recompiling turns this on for everything, period.
3. The access() command is considered "a security hole that should never
be used" by the BSD documentation. However, I can not see how access()
is a security concern _in this particular implementation_, and nobody
has been able to give me an example of how it could be. If using
access() makes you nervious, you could replace it with open()-with a
test for success. I didn't want to do this because of the potential
performance hit. Also, I don't know whether or not access() is portable
to ot...