access()

[M.T.Russell]

In article <15103 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>                                  The safest way to test for file
>existence (on UNIX) is to stat() the presumed pathname and see if
>it succeeds.

On BSD systems lstat() is often better, as stat() will return
a wrong negative result for a symbolic link that points to a
non-existent file.

Mark