Bug#176526: the problem with PATH setting in auxillary script of tetex

[Olaf Weber <olaf@infovore.xs4all.nl>]

Frank Küster writes:

> What could be regarded as a bug, however, is the very generic name of
> our binary. It could well be something like "fileaccess" or "tryaccess"
> or "tex-access". On the other hand, what it does is, with some
> decoration for option parsing, the most generic implementation of a
> user-space binary using access(2).

Having a command for use in scripts that duplicates the functionality
of a system call named after that system call seemed reasonable at the
time.

The command is named kpseaccess in the next (upstream) release of
kpathsea/teTeX/TeX-live.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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