HP-UX Reference (11i v3 07/02) - 2 System Calls (vol 5)

access(2) access(2)

ERRORS

If access() fails, errno is set to one of the following values.

[EACCES] Search permission is denied on a component of the path preﬁx.

[EACCES] The access control list does not permit the requested access and the real user ID is not

a user with DACREAD or DACWRITE privileges.

[EFAULT] path points outside the allocated address space for the process. The reliable detection

of this error is implementation dependent.

[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the path name.

[ENAMETOOLONG]

The length of the speciﬁed path name exceeds

PATH_MAX bytes, or the length of a

component of the path name exceeds

NAME_MAX bytes while

_POSIX_NO_TRUNC is

in effect.

[ENOENT] Read, write, or execute (search) permission is requested for a null path name.

[ENOENT] The named ﬁle does not exist.

[ENOTDIR] A component of the path preﬁx is not a directory.

[EROFS] Write access is requested for a ﬁle on a read-only ﬁle system.

[ETXTBSY] Write access is requested for a pure procedure (shared text) ﬁle that is being executed.