[OpenAFS] AFS access rights determination

[Priyank Porwal]

Derek Atkins wrote:

>Priyank Porwal <porwal@cs.unc.edu> writes:
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>>Hi,
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>>Is there a way in AFS I can find out what permissions a user has on a 
>>particular directory? 'fs listacl' gives only the explicit rights gives 
>>to a particular user (or group), but not the rights derived from group 
>>memberships. There's an access() function in UNIX to check access to 
>>file or pathnames but it works only for R, W and X modes. Is there any 
>>similar interface for AFS?
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>Actually, the access() system call, when used in an AFS context,
>*WILL* check the AFS ACL permissions.  This was fixed (in Linux at
>least) before Linux 1.2 was released.  I know -- I supplied Linus with
>the patches to fix it.
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Thanks Derek,

What mode values/constants should I pass to access() system call to test 
for i,d, l, k, a AFS permissions?