Argument validity checking (addresses)

Michael Gersten michael at stb.uucp
Fri Feb 2 18:04:37 AEST 1990


<Sigh>. Guys, to find out if an address is valid or not, pass it to
access as a filename. It has to check for that being valid and in your
address, and you can see if it gives you EACCESS or not.

So there is a use for access() after all.

		Michael
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