From 59c20484d0ff23fa32224f62468af2284dba0600 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:59:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] gst/registries/gstxmlregistry.c
 (gst_xml_registry_get_perms_func): Just use access() instead of actually
 creating and...

Original commit message from CVS:
2004-03-20  Colin Walters  <walters@verbum.org>

* gst/registries/gstxmlregistry.c (gst_xml_registry_get_perms_func): Just use
access() instead of actually creating and deleting files.
---
 ChangeLog                       |  5 +++++
 gst/registries/gstxmlregistry.c | 33 ++++++++++-----------------------
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e53110fbaa..808d55a23e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-03-20  Colin Walters  <walters@verbum.org>
+
+	* gst/registries/gstxmlregistry.c (gst_xml_registry_get_perms_func): Just use
+	access() instead of actually creating and deleting files.
+
 2004-03-18  David Schleef  <ds@schleef.org>
 
 	* configure.ac:  Remove HAVE_ATOMIC_H test, since it's unused.
diff --git a/gst/registries/gstxmlregistry.c b/gst/registries/gstxmlregistry.c
index 934fb9f2a6..3b55f81fef 100644
--- a/gst/registries/gstxmlregistry.c
+++ b/gst/registries/gstxmlregistry.c
@@ -327,8 +327,7 @@ make_dir (gchar * filename)
 static void
 gst_xml_registry_get_perms_func (GstXMLRegistry * registry)
 {
-  time_t mod_time = 0;
-  FILE *temp;
+  gchar *dirname;
 
   /* if the dir does not exist, make it. if that can't be done, flags = 0x0.
      if the file can be appended to, it's writable. if it can then be read,
@@ -340,33 +339,21 @@ gst_xml_registry_get_perms_func (GstXMLRegistry * registry)
     return;
   }
 
-  mod_time = get_time (registry->location);
-
-  if ((temp = fopen (registry->location, "a"))) {
-    GST_REGISTRY (registry)->flags |= GST_REGISTRY_WRITABLE;
-    fclose (temp);
-  }
-
-  if ((temp = fopen (registry->location, "r"))) {
-    GST_REGISTRY (registry)->flags |= GST_REGISTRY_READABLE;
-    fclose (temp);
-  }
+  dirname = g_path_get_dirname (registry->location);
 
   if (g_file_test (registry->location, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS)) {
     GST_REGISTRY (registry)->flags |= GST_REGISTRY_EXISTS;
   }
 
-  if (mod_time) {
-    struct utimbuf utime_buf;
-
-    /* set the modification time back to its previous value */
-    utime_buf.actime = mod_time;
-    utime_buf.modtime = mod_time;
-    utime (registry->location, &utime_buf);
-  } else if (GST_REGISTRY (registry)->flags & GST_REGISTRY_WRITABLE) {
-    /* it did not exist before, so delete it */
-    unlink (registry->location);
+  if (!access (dirname, W_OK)) {
+    GST_REGISTRY (registry)->flags |= GST_REGISTRY_WRITABLE;
   }
+
+  if (!access (dirname, R_OK)) {
+    GST_REGISTRY (registry)->flags |= GST_REGISTRY_READABLE;
+  }
+
+  g_free (dirname);
 }
 
 static void