kern/90063: procfs: access("/proc/123", F_OK) doesn't work on >= 6.x

[Johan van Selst]

>Number:         90063
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       procfs: access("/proc/123", F_OK) doesn't work on >= 6.x
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 07 11:00:11 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Johan van Selst
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mud.stack.nl 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #8: Mon Dec 5 13:04:53 CET 2005 johans at mud.stack.nl:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/mud i386


	
>Description:
	
A quick and dirty check for a running pid does
	if (access("/proc/123", F_OK))

However on a -CURRENT system, this will always return OK status (0) -
regardless of whether the directory/process is present or not. Only when
checking for permissions (R_OK, X_OK) a real check seems to be performed.
This is not compatible with the behaviour on FreeBSD 5.x and older.

>How-To-Repeat:
	

Compare the result of this code on a 5.x and 6.x system for any
non-existing /proc/1234 entry

        if (access(argv[1], F_OK) < 0)
                return EX_UNAVAILABLE;

        if (access(argv[1], X_OK) < 0)
                return EX_NOPERM;

        return EX_OK;

>Fix:

	


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