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chown: detect Solaris and FreeBSD bug
Solaris 9 and FreeBSD 7.2 chown("link-to-file/",uid,gid)
mistakenly changes ownership of "file".
* lib/chown.c (rpl_chown): Work around bug.
* m4/chown.m4 (gl_FUNC_CHOWN): Check for trailing slash bugs.
(gl_PREREQ_CHOWN): Delete.
* m4/unistd_h.m4 (gl_UNISTD_H_DEFAULTS): Add witness.
* modules/unistd (Makefile.am): Populate it.
* lib/unistd.in.h (chown): Update declaration.
* lib/lchown.c (chown): Update client.
* modules/lchown (Depends-on): Add lstat.
* doc/posix-functions/chown.texi (chown): Document the bug.
* doc/posix-functions/getgroups.texi (getgroups): Document
getgroups pitfall.
* modules/chown-tests: New file.
* tests/test-chown.h (test_chown): Likewise.
* tests/test-chown.c (main): Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
author | Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> |
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date | Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:45:20 -0700 |
parents | 79f4b013feab |
children | 6cb1877033fc |
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# serial 20 # Determine whether we need the chown wrapper. dnl Copyright (C) 1997-2001, 2003-2005, 2007, 2009 dnl Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. # chown should accept arguments of -1 for uid and gid, and it should # dereference symlinks. If it doesn't, arrange to use the replacement # function. # From Jim Meyering. AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_CHOWN], [ AC_REQUIRE([gl_UNISTD_H_DEFAULTS]) AC_REQUIRE([AC_TYPE_UID_T]) AC_REQUIRE([AC_FUNC_CHOWN]) AC_REQUIRE([gl_FUNC_CHOWN_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK]) AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE([chown fchown]) if test $ac_cv_func_chown = no; then HAVE_CHOWN=0 AC_LIBOBJ([chown]) else if test $gl_cv_func_chown_follows_symlink = no; then REPLACE_CHOWN=1 AC_LIBOBJ([chown]) fi if test $ac_cv_func_chown_works = no; then AC_DEFINE([CHOWN_FAILS_TO_HONOR_ID_OF_NEGATIVE_ONE], [1], [Define if chown is not POSIX compliant regarding IDs of -1.]) REPLACE_CHOWN=1 AC_LIBOBJ([chown]) fi AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether chown honors trailing slash], [gl_cv_func_chown_slash_works], [touch conftest.file && rm -f conftest.link AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[ #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <errno.h> ]], [[ if (symlink ("conftest.file", "conftest.link")) return 1; if (chown ("conftest.link/", getuid (), getgid ()) == 0) return 2; ]])], [gl_cv_func_chown_slash_works=yes], [gl_cv_func_chown_slash_works=no], [gl_cv_func_chown_slash_works="guessing no"]) rm -f conftest.link conftest.file]) if test "$gl_cv_func_chown_slash_works" != yes; then AC_DEFINE([CHOWN_TRAILING_SLASH_BUG], [1], [Define if chown mishandles trailing slash.]) REPLACE_CHOWN=1 AC_LIBOBJ([chown]) fi if test $REPLACE_CHOWN = 1 && test $ac_cv_func_fchown = no; then AC_LIBOBJ([fchown-stub]) fi fi ]) # Determine whether chown follows symlinks (it should). AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_CHOWN_FOLLOWS_SYMLINK], [ AC_CACHE_CHECK( [whether chown dereferences symlinks], [gl_cv_func_chown_follows_symlink], [ AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[ #include <unistd.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <errno.h> int main () { char const *dangling_symlink = "conftest.dangle"; unlink (dangling_symlink); if (symlink ("conftest.no-such", dangling_symlink)) abort (); /* Exit successfully on a conforming system, i.e., where chown must fail with ENOENT. */ exit ( ! (chown (dangling_symlink, getuid (), getgid ()) != 0 && errno == ENOENT)); } ]])], [gl_cv_func_chown_follows_symlink=yes], [gl_cv_func_chown_follows_symlink=no], [gl_cv_func_chown_follows_symlink=yes] ) ] ) if test $gl_cv_func_chown_follows_symlink = no; then AC_DEFINE([CHOWN_MODIFIES_SYMLINK], [1], [Define if chown modifies symlinks.]) fi ])