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* debloat code that depends on /proc/self/fd/%d with shared functionRich Felker2013-08-021-1/+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.
* work around linux's lack of flags argument to fchmodat syscallRich Felker2013-08-021-1/+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.
* global cleanup to use the new syscall interfaceRich Felker2011-03-201-1/+1
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* initial check-in, version 0.5.0 v0.5.0Rich Felker2011-02-121-0/+7