Re: access(2) using effective uid instead of real one?

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nicolas Thery wrote:
> Hello,
>
> According to man and posix, access(2) uses the real user UID instead
> of the effective one.  However it looks like the functions doing the
> checking (ufs_access, vop_helper_access) use the effective uid  and I
> can't find anywhere where the effective uid passed to these functions
> would be changed for the real one (as fbsd does).
>
> I also wrote a small program that confirms this.
>
> Assuming I'm not missing something, Is it intentional or a bug?

I'd say it is a bug.

cheers
  simon

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