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2015-02-05fix failure of fchmodat to report EOPNOTSUPP in the race pathRich Felker-2/+4
in the case where a non-symlink file was replaced by a symlink during the fchmodat operation with AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, mode change on the new symlink target was successfully suppressed, but the error was not reported. instead, fchmodat simply returned 0.
2015-02-04fix fd leak race (missing O_CLOEXEC) in fchmodatRich Felker-1/+1
2014-05-29support linux kernel apis (new archs) with old syscalls removedRich Felker-2/+3
such archs are expected to omit definitions of the SYS_* macros for syscalls their kernels lack from arch/$ARCH/bits/syscall.h. the preprocessor is then able to select the an appropriate implementation for affected functions. two basic strategies are used on a case-by-case basis: where the old syscalls correspond to deprecated library-level functions, the deprecated functions have been converted to wrappers for the modern function, and the modern function has fallback code (omitted at the preprocessor level on new archs) to make use of the old syscalls if the new syscall fails with ENOSYS. this also improves functionality on older kernels and eliminates the incentive to program with deprecated library-level functions for the sake of compatibility with older kernels. in other situations where the old syscalls correspond to library-level functions which are not deprecated but merely lack some new features, such as the *at functions, the old syscalls are still used on archs which support them. this may change at some point in the future if or when fallback code is added to the new functions to make them usable (possibly with reduced functionality) on old kernels.
2013-12-12include cleanups: remove unused headers and add feature test macrosSzabolcs Nagy-1/+0
2013-08-02debloat code that depends on /proc/self/fd/%d with shared functionRich Felker-1/+3
I intend to add more Linux workarounds that depend on using these pathnames, and some of them will be in "syscall" functions that, from an anti-bloat standpoint, should not depend on the whole snprintf framework.
2013-08-02work around linux's lack of flags argument to fchmodat syscallRich Felker-1/+29
previously, the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag was ignored, giving dangerously incorrect behavior -- the target of the symlink had its modes changed to the modes (usually 0777) intended for the symlink). this issue was amplified by the fact that musl provides lchmod, as a wrapper for fchmodat, which some archival programs take as a sign that symlink modes are supported and thus attempt to use. emulating AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW was a difficult problem, and I originally believed it could not be solved, at least not without depending on kernels newer than 3.5.x or so where O_PATH works halfway well. however, it turns out that accessing O_PATH file descriptors via their pseudo-symlink entries in /proc/self/fd works much better than trying to use the fd directly, and works even on older kernels. moreover, the kernel has permanently pegged these references to the inode obtained by the O_PATH open, so there should not be race conditions with the file being moved, deleted, replaced, etc.
2011-03-20global cleanup to use the new syscall interfaceRich Felker-1/+1
2011-02-12initial check-in, version 0.5.0v0.5.0Rich Felker-0/+7