Re: git: 421025a274fb - main - access.2: Mention that lstat(2) should be used for symbolic links

Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> commit 421025a274fb5759b3ecc8bdb30b24db830b45ae
> Author:     Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2024-05-13 08:40:12 +0000
> Commit:     Gordon Bergling <gbe@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2024-05-13 08:40:12 +0000
>
>     access.2: Mention that lstat(2) should be used for symbolic links
>     
>     access(), eaccess() and faccessat() will always dereference
>     symbolic links.
>     
>     So add a note in the manual page, that lstat(2) should be
>     used in the case of symbolic links.

Please revert.  This is pointless.  The purpose of `access()` is to (try
to) tell you what would happen if you tried to `open()` a given path,
and there is no way to `open()` a symlink without dereferencing it, so
this addition answers a question that nobody is asking.

DES
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