[Bug 262895] access(2) man page should mention softlinks

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=262895

Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> ---
Jamie, how exactly did you “almost get bitten” by this?  `access()` etc always
dereference the symbolic link because the question they answer is “what would
happen if I tried to `open()` this path” and `open()` always dereferences
symbolic links.  Furthermore, as is already noted in the manual page, you
should probably not be using `access()` at all for reasons entirely unrelated
to whether or not it follows symbolic links.

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