[PATCH v3 2/6] manual: Document faccessat
Arjun Shankar
arjun@redhat.com
Wed Jun 4 11:08:54 GMT 2025
---
manual/filesys.texi | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/manual/filesys.texi b/manual/filesys.texi
index 28d38f23fc..17c15b5403 100644
--- a/manual/filesys.texi
+++ b/manual/filesys.texi
@@ -3069,6 +3069,29 @@ Flag meaning test for execute/search permission.
Flag meaning test for existence of the file.
@end deftypevr
+@deftypefun int faccessat (int @var{filedes}, const char *@var{filename}, int @var{how}, int @var{flags})
+@standards{POSIX.1-2008, unistd.h}
+@comment Unaudited and therefore marked AC-Unsafe and AS-Unsafe by default
+@safety{@mtsafe{}@asunsafe{@asucorrupt{}}@acunsafe{@acucorrupt{}}}
+This function is a descriptor-relative version of the @code{access}
+function above. @xref{Descriptor-Relative Access}. The @var{flags}
+argument can contain a combination of the flags @code{AT_EACCESS} described
+below, @code{AT_EMPTY_PATH}, and @code{AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW}.
+
+@vtable @code
+@item AT_EACCESS
+This flag when passed to the @code{faccessat} function causes it to perform
+access checks using effective user and group IDs instead of real IDs, which
+is the default and matches the @code{access} function.
+@end vtable
+
+Compared to @code{access}, some additional error conditions can occur.
+@xref{Descriptor-Relative Access}.
+
+This function may not work correctly on older kernels missing the
+@code{faccessat2} system call.
+@end deftypefun
+
@node File Times
@subsection File Times
@@ -3849,7 +3872,6 @@ creation always works like @code{open} with @code{O_EXCL}.
The @code{mkdtemp} function comes from OpenBSD.
@c FIXME these are undocumented:
-@c faccessat
@c fchmodat
@c fchownat
@c futimesat
--
2.49.0
More information about the Libc-alpha
mailing list