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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-09-05 23:03:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com> | 2022-09-05 23:03:47 +0200 |
| commit | 70ac1c4785fc1e158ab2349a962dba2526bf4fbc (patch) | |
| tree | bff270e2496dd284bccfc1271b43946f5d225224 /man/man3/euidaccess.3 | |
| parent | 5423a6f86b2b920a5f3e8cf8d759b513050f2d33 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-70ac1c4785fc1e158ab2349a962dba2526bf4fbc.tar.gz | |
src.mk, All pages: Move man* to man/
The root of the repository is becoming a bit overpopulated and
unorganized, due to the recent addition of more mandirs, and more
informative and configuration files too. Let's create a specific
mandir <man/> that contains the mandirs <man[1-8]*>.
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/man/man3/euidaccess.3 b/man/man3/euidaccess.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0bd589fda2 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man3/euidaccess.3 @@ -0,0 +1,105 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 2007 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH EUIDACCESS 3 2021-03-22 "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +euidaccess, eaccess \- check effective user's permissions for a file +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */" +.B #include <unistd.h> +.PP +.BI "int euidaccess(const char *" pathname ", int " mode ); +.BI "int eaccess(const char *" pathname ", int " mode ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +Like +.BR access (2), +.BR euidaccess () +checks permissions and existence of the file identified by its argument +.IR pathname . +However, whereas +.BR access (2) +performs checks using the real user and group identifiers of the process, +.BR euidaccess () +uses the effective identifiers. +.PP +.I mode +is a mask consisting of one or more of +.BR R_OK ", " W_OK ", " X_OK ", and " F_OK , +with the same meanings as for +.BR access (2). +.PP +.BR eaccess () +is a synonym for +.BR euidaccess (), +provided for compatibility with some other systems. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success (all requested permissions granted), zero is returned. +On error (at least one bit in +.I mode +asked for a permission that is denied, or some other error occurred), +\-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +As for +.BR access (2). +.SH VERSIONS +The +.BR eaccess () +function was added to glibc in version 2.4. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.ad l +.nh +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.BR euidaccess (), +.BR eaccess () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.hy +.ad +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +These functions are nonstandard. +Some other systems have an +.\" e.g., FreeBSD 6.1. +.BR eaccess () +function. +.SH NOTES +.IR Warning : +Using this function to check a process's permissions on a file before +performing some operation based on that information leads to race conditions: +the file permissions may change between the two steps. +Generally, it is safer just to attempt the desired operation and handle +any permission error that occurs. +.PP +This function always dereferences symbolic links. +If you need to check the permissions on a symbolic link, use +.BR faccessat (2) +with the flags +.B AT_EACCESS +and +.BR AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW . +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR access (2), +.BR chmod (2), +.BR chown (2), +.BR faccessat (2), +.BR open (2), +.BR setgid (2), +.BR setuid (2), +.BR stat (2), +.BR credentials (7), +.BR path_resolution (7) |