...dereferences symbolic links. If you need to check the permissions on a symbolic link, use faccessat (2) with the flags AT_EACCESS and AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW . SEE ALSO access (2), …...dereferences symbolic links. If you need to check the permissions on a symbolic link, use faccessat (2) with the flags AT_EACCESS and AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW . SEE ALSO access (2), …