access(2) (was: Writing to A NON-Existing File in "C")

[Michael T Sullivan]

On the one side you have people giving reasons not to use access() and
on the other you have people saying "but what's the harm".  Remember,
you can use system("ls filename > /tmp/snork") to determine whether a
file exists, it's just not the best/right way.  If you can't give an
reason any better than "what's the harm" (and the stat people give good
reasons not to) then just use access().

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