1 /* provide a chdir function that tries not to fail due to ENAMETOOLONG
2 Copyright (C) 2004-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* written by Jim Meyering */
21 #include "chdir-long.h"
33 # error "compile this file only if your system defines PATH_MAX"
36 /* The results of openat() in this file are not leaked to any
37 single-threaded code that could use stdio.
38 FIXME - if the kernel ever adds support for multi-thread safety for
39 avoiding standard fds, then we should use openat_safer. */
47 cdb_init (struct cd_buf
*cdb
)
53 cdb_fchdir (struct cd_buf
const *cdb
)
55 return fchdir (cdb
->fd
);
59 cdb_free (struct cd_buf
const *cdb
)
63 bool close_fail
= close (cdb
->fd
);
64 assure (! close_fail
);
68 /* Given a file descriptor of an open directory (or AT_FDCWD), CDB->fd,
69 try to open the CDB->fd-relative directory, DIR. If the open succeeds,
70 update CDB->fd with the resulting descriptor, close the incoming file
71 descriptor, and return zero. Upon failure, return -1 and set errno. */
73 cdb_advance_fd (struct cd_buf
*cdb
, char const *dir
)
75 int new_fd
= openat (cdb
->fd
, dir
,
76 O_SEARCH
| O_DIRECTORY
| O_NOCTTY
| O_NONBLOCK
);
86 /* Return a pointer to the first non-slash in S. */
87 static char * _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE
88 find_non_slash (char const *s
)
90 size_t n_slash
= strspn (s
, "/");
91 return (char *) s
+ n_slash
;
94 /* This is a function much like chdir, but without the PATH_MAX limitation
95 on the length of the directory name. A significant difference is that
96 it must be able to modify (albeit only temporarily) the directory
97 name. It handles an arbitrarily long directory name by operating
98 on manageable portions of the name. On systems without the openat
99 syscall, this means changing the working directory to more and more
100 "distant" points along the long directory name and then restoring
101 the working directory. If any of those attempts to save or restore
102 the working directory fails, this function exits nonzero.
104 Note that this function may still fail with errno == ENAMETOOLONG, but
105 only if the specified directory name contains a component that is long
106 enough to provoke such a failure all by itself (e.g. if the component
107 has length PATH_MAX or greater on systems that define PATH_MAX). */
110 chdir_long (char *dir
)
113 if (e
== 0 || errno
!= ENAMETOOLONG
)
117 size_t len
= strlen (dir
);
118 char *dir_end
= dir
+ len
;
120 size_t n_leading_slash
;
124 /* If DIR is the empty string, then the chdir above
125 must have failed and set errno to ENOENT. */
127 assure (PATH_MAX
<= len
);
129 /* Count leading slashes. */
130 n_leading_slash
= strspn (dir
, "/");
132 /* Handle any leading slashes as well as any name that matches
133 the regular expression, m!^//hostname[/]*! . Handling this
134 prefix separately usually results in a single additional
135 cdb_advance_fd call, but it's worthwhile, since it makes the
136 code in the following loop cleaner. */
137 if (n_leading_slash
== 2)
141 We already know that dir[2] is neither a slash nor '\0'. */
142 char *slash
= memchr (dir
+ 3, '/', dir_end
- (dir
+ 3));
145 errno
= ENAMETOOLONG
;
149 err
= cdb_advance_fd (&cdb
, dir
);
153 dir
= find_non_slash (slash
+ 1);
155 else if (n_leading_slash
)
157 if (cdb_advance_fd (&cdb
, "/") != 0)
159 dir
+= n_leading_slash
;
162 assure (*dir
!= '/');
163 assure (dir
<= dir_end
);
165 while (PATH_MAX
<= dir_end
- dir
)
168 /* Find a slash that is PATH_MAX or fewer bytes away from dir.
169 I.e. see if there is a slash that will give us a name of
170 length PATH_MAX-1 or less. */
171 char *slash
= memrchr (dir
, '/', PATH_MAX
);
174 errno
= ENAMETOOLONG
;
179 assure (slash
- dir
< PATH_MAX
);
180 err
= cdb_advance_fd (&cdb
, dir
);
185 dir
= find_non_slash (slash
+ 1);
190 if (cdb_advance_fd (&cdb
, dir
) != 0)
194 if (cdb_fchdir (&cdb
) != 0)
202 int saved_errno
= errno
;
212 # include "closeout.h"
216 main (int argc
, char *argv
[])
222 atexit (close_stdout
);
224 len
= getline (&line
, &n
, stdin
);
227 int saved_errno
= errno
;
231 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, saved_errno
,
232 "reading standard input");
237 if (line
[len
-1] == '\n')
240 if (chdir_long (line
) != 0)
241 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
,
242 "chdir_long failed: %s", line
);
246 /* Using 'pwd' here makes sense only if it is a robust implementation,
247 like the one in coreutils after the 2004-04-19 changes. */
248 char const *cmd
= "pwd";
249 execlp (cmd
, (char *) NULL
);
250 error (EXIT_FAILURE
, errno
, "%s", cmd
);
262 compile-command: "gcc -DTEST_CHDIR=1 -g -O -W -Wall chdir-long.c libcoreutils.a"