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1 /* Create /proc/self/fd-related names for subfiles of open directories.
3 Copyright (C) 2006, 2009-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8 (at your option) any later version.
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
18 /* Written by Paul Eggert. */
20 #include <config.h>
22 #include "openat-priv.h"
24 #include <sys/types.h>
25 #include <sys/stat.h>
26 #include <fcntl.h>
28 #include <stdio.h>
29 #include <stdlib.h>
30 #include <string.h>
31 #include <unistd.h>
33 #include "intprops.h"
35 /* The results of open() in this file are not used with fchdir,
36 and we do not leak fds to any single-threaded code that could use stdio,
37 therefore save some unnecessary work in fchdir.c.
38 FIXME - if the kernel ever adds support for multi-thread safety for
39 avoiding standard fds, then we should use open_safer. */
40 #undef open
41 #undef close
43 #define PROC_SELF_FD_FORMAT "/proc/self/fd/%d/%s"
45 #define PROC_SELF_FD_NAME_SIZE_BOUND(len) \
46 (sizeof PROC_SELF_FD_FORMAT - sizeof "%d%s" \
47 + INT_STRLEN_BOUND (int) + (len) + 1)
50 /* Set BUF to the expansion of PROC_SELF_FD_FORMAT, using FD and FILE
51 respectively for %d and %s. If successful, return BUF if the
52 result fits in BUF, dynamically allocated memory otherwise. But
53 return NULL if /proc is not reliable, either because the operating
54 system support is lacking or because memory is low. */
55 char *
56 openat_proc_name (char buf[OPENAT_BUFFER_SIZE], int fd, char const *file)
58 static int proc_status = 0;
60 /* Make sure the caller gets ENOENT when appropriate. */
61 if (!*file)
63 buf[0] = '\0';
64 return buf;
67 if (! proc_status)
69 /* Set PROC_STATUS to a positive value if /proc/self/fd is
70 reliable, and a negative value otherwise. Solaris 10
71 /proc/self/fd mishandles "..", and any file name might expand
72 to ".." after symbolic link expansion, so avoid /proc/self/fd
73 if it mishandles "..". Solaris 10 has openat, but this
74 problem is exhibited on code that built on Solaris 8 and
75 running on Solaris 10. */
77 int proc_self_fd = open ("/proc/self/fd",
78 O_SEARCH | O_DIRECTORY | O_NOCTTY | O_NONBLOCK);
79 if (proc_self_fd < 0)
80 proc_status = -1;
81 else
83 /* Detect whether /proc/self/fd/%i/../fd exists, where %i is the
84 number of a file descriptor open on /proc/self/fd. On Linux,
85 that name resolves to /proc/self/fd, which was opened above.
86 However, on Solaris, it may resolve to /proc/self/fd/fd, which
87 cannot exist, since all names in /proc/self/fd are numeric. */
88 char dotdot_buf[PROC_SELF_FD_NAME_SIZE_BOUND (sizeof "../fd" - 1)];
89 sprintf (dotdot_buf, PROC_SELF_FD_FORMAT, proc_self_fd, "../fd");
90 proc_status = access (dotdot_buf, F_OK) ? -1 : 1;
91 close (proc_self_fd);
95 if (proc_status < 0)
96 return NULL;
97 else
99 size_t bufsize = PROC_SELF_FD_NAME_SIZE_BOUND (strlen (file));
100 char *result = buf;
101 if (OPENAT_BUFFER_SIZE < bufsize)
103 result = malloc (bufsize);
104 if (! result)
105 return NULL;
107 sprintf (result, PROC_SELF_FD_FORMAT, fd, file);
108 return result;