freopen(), access()

[Charles Bryant]

In article <14944 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>I suspect that whatever code is using access() already has a bug, since
>access() rarely does what any sensible application would want it to do.
>(This is a design deficiency in the semantics for access().)

Is this bug that the programs use it when checking effective UID access,
or that they are setuid programs which have a window between checking
permissions and opening the file in which the file could be switched?
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