On Jun 23 18:11, Eric Blake wrote: > Furthermore, access() seems like it may be more efficient than open() in > terms of the underlying work that must be done to implement it. Not really. On NT, access requires to open the file, too. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/