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faccessat − check user’s permissions of a file relative to a directory file descriptor
#include
<fcntl.h> /* Definition of AT_* constants */
#include <unistd.h>
int faccessat(int dirfd, const char *pathname, int mode, int flags);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
faccessat():
Since glibc 2.10:
_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 700 || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
Before glibc 2.10:
_ATFILE_SOURCE
The faccessat() system call operates in exactly the same way as access(2), except for the differences described in this manual page.
If the pathname given in pathname is relative, then it is interpreted relative to the directory referred to by the file descriptor dirfd (rather than relative to the current working directory of the calling process, as is done by access(2) for a relative pathname).
If pathname is relative and dirfd is the special value AT_FDCWD, then pathname is interpreted relative to the current working directory of the calling process (like access(2)).
If pathname is absolute, then dirfd is ignored.
flags is
constructed by ORing together zero or more of the following
values:
AT_EACCESS
Perform access checks using the effective user and group IDs. By default, faccessat() uses the real IDs (like access(2)).
AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
If pathname is a symbolic link, do not dereference it: instead return information about the link itself.
On success, (all requested permissions granted) faccessat() returns 0. On error, −1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.
The same errors that occur for access(2) can also occur for faccessat(). The following additional errors can occur for faccessat():
EBADF |
dirfd is not a valid file descriptor. |
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EINVAL |
Invalid flag specified in flags. |
ENOTDIR
pathname is relative and dirfd is a file descriptor referring to a file other than a directory.
faccessat() was added to Linux in kernel 2.6.16.
POSIX.1-2008.
See openat(2) for an explanation of the need for faccessat().
Glibc
Notes
The AT_EACCESS and AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flags
are actually implemented within the glibc wrapper function
for faccessat(). If either of these flags are
specified, then the wrapper function employs
fstatat(2) to determine access permissions.
access(2), openat(2), euidaccess(3), credentials(7), path_resolution(7), symlink(7)
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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