Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: CPSC 323 Fiend Questions
Date: Monday, 14 Sep 2020, 21:49:23

    > Can we assume that any fileames fiend traverses to (with leading
    > directories stripped) will not have any '/' slash characters in it?

Yes, local filenames may not contain a /.
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    > I had asked a question about file permissions on the newsgroup earlier, but
    > I'll clarify here. Can we assume that any file that fiend traverses to has
    > the appropriate permissions for fiend to act on it (e.g. if an -exec
    > argument writes to a file, will that file have writing permissions)?

No.  All you may assume is that you can lstat() it,
which will allow you to determine its type.

--Stan-