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authorJames M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>2018-10-19 15:25:34 -0700
committerRod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>2018-11-28 11:26:47 +1100
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doc: document ACL limitation for fs.access on Windows
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/19192 PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23772 Reviewed-By: Vse Mozhet Byt <vsemozhetbyt@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Sam Roberts <vieuxtech@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Bartosz Sosnowski <bartosz@janeasystems.com>
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@@ -565,6 +565,11 @@ In general, check for the accessibility of a file only if the file will not be
used directly, for example when its accessibility is a signal from another
process.
+On Windows, access-control policies (ACLs) on a directory may limit access to
+a file or directory. The `fs.access()` function, however, does not check the
+ACL and therefore may report that a path is accessible even if the ACL restricts
+the user from reading or writing to it.
+
## fs.accessSync(path[, mode])
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