FACCESSAT(3POSIX)

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✨ FACCESSAT(3POSIX) ✨

bestie, this is the FACCESSAT(3POSIX) page from the POSIX Programmer's Manual. It's short, it's iconic, and we're gonna read it together. 🫶

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

Okay so first things first: This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux. That's the whole prolog, no cap. 💅

💖 NAME 💖

faccessat — determine accessibility of a file relative to directory file descriptor.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <unistd.h>

int faccessat(int fd, const char *path, int amode, int flag);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Bestie, the description is literally just this: Refer to access().

That's it. That's the description. Go read access() if you want the tea. ☕

Okay, legal tea ☕: some of this text is reprinted and reproduced electronically from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. If there's any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. You can get the original Standard online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

If you see any typographical or formatting errors on this page, they're most likely from converting the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

Mwah 💋 — this page's source/version is IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, and the manual page is FACCESSAT(3POSIX). Byeee, go slay some file access checks! 🌈✨

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