From: James Y Knight <jyknight@google.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] In glob(), do not require that the target of a symlink exists.
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 12:04:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2zVHoFGiR=B14u6xo_Jg5xnQVCOd+ZYSQ4_BSNfY2cSH1U3g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2zVHqaLrSQK5dwD5H1D5ndSix70ztEvtHnki0SGop-Vp-u2A@mail.gmail.com>
Ping -- is this patch ok?
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:37 PM James Y Knight <jyknight@google.com> wrote:
>
> Previously, when given a trailing path component with no
> metacharacters, glob would call stat to check if the provided filename
> existed, which would fail on a broken symlink. When expanding a
> pattern however, glob would trust the list of files returned by
> readdir, and thus would return broken symlinks.
>
> Now, be consistent and allow broken symlinks in both cases, by using
> lstat to determine file existence.
>
> If GLOB_MARK is specified, stat must still be used to determine
> whether a given name refers to a directory or file. But if that fails,
> a symlink is simply considered to be a file for marking purposes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-30 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-23 0:37 James Y Knight
2019-07-30 16:04 ` James Y Knight [this message]
2019-07-30 16:13 ` Rich Felker
2019-07-31 20:35 ` Stephane Chazelas
2019-08-06 2:03 ` Rich Felker
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