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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [experimental]: findutils-4.3.0-1


I fully expect a couple of hippos in this thread as well, but
nonetheless...

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Eric Blake wrote:

> A new release of findutils, 4.3.0-1, is available for experimental use.
> [snip]
> Upstream news since 4.2.27 is attached.
> [snip]
> ** Functional Changes
> New tests, -readable, -writable, -executable.  These check that a file
> can be read, written or executed respectively.

Can someone explain to me how these are different from "-perm -0400",
"-perm -0200", and "-perm -0100" respectively?  Do they use access()?
	Igor
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