Re: tetex 2.96 beta texlinks uses "nonstandard" access

"George N. White III" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Organization Bedford Institute of Oceanography
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 10 May 2004, ezra peisach wrote:

> Irix does not provide the program "access"

tetex-src-beta-2.96.1.20040322 had:

./texk/kpathsea/access.c ./texk/kpathsea/access.man
./texk/kpathsea/access.o ./texk/kpathsea/access ./texk/kpathsea/access.1

and (built using gcc), access was installed with the other binaries

> texk/texlinks uses the program "access" instead of test in the
> search_symlinkdir() function.
>
> test uses stat() to look at permissions
> access uses the access() function...
>
> Either a simplisting and portable access should be writen - or the
> functionaliy rewriten in perl, etc.
>
> For now - I am using the test program...

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