Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 23:34:41 GMT From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: bill@twwells.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a talkd/write improvement I made Message-ID: <199607012334.XAA03565@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4r8u4m$9k5@twwells.com> (bill@twwells.com)
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> : > That doesn't resolve the problem. The usual problem is people > : > protecting their home directories. Then, I can't tell if they > : > have a .talkrc. > : > : Actually, you can if you check errno (if it doesn't exist, you get > : ENOENT, if it exists but you don't have permission, you get EACCESS). > > Actually, that's total BS. If the directory does not have > permissions are, e.g., 700, you can't check it _at all_. Actually I made a mistake in my test program (I thought at the time it seemed rather strange...) so this proposal can now be put to sleep. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/
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