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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: fchmodat: add limited support for AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
From: Ken Brown via Cygwin-patches <cygwin-patches () cygwin ! com>
Date: 2021-01-27 17:26:15
Message-ID: 6aa2a33d-8cbc-a811-f37b-850620ab47f8 () cornell ! edu
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On 1/27/2021 8:27 AM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-patches wrote:
> On Jan 27 08:22, Ken Brown via Cygwin-patches wrote:
>> On 1/27/2021 7:40 AM, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-patches wrote:
>>> On Jan 26 16:30, Ken Brown via Cygwin-patches wrote:
>>>> Allow fchmodat with the AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flag to succeed on
>>>> non-symlinks. Previously it always failed, as it does on Linux. But
>>>> POSIX permits it to succeed on non-symlinks even if it fails on
>>>> symlinks.
>>>>
>>>> The reason for following POSIX rather than Linux is to make gnulib
>>>> report that fchmodat works on Cygwin. This improves the efficiency of
>>>> packages like GNU tar that use gnulib's fchmodat module. Previously
>>>> such packages would use a gnulib replacement for fchmodat on Cygwin.
>>>
>>> Wait, what? So if Cygwin behaves like Linux, gnulib treats fchmodat
>>> as non-working? So what does gnulib do on a Linux system? Does it
>>> use its own fchmodat there, too?
>>
>> Apparently so. Here's a comment from gnulib's test program for fchmodat:
>>
>> /* Test whether fchmodat+AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW works on non-symlinks.
>> This test fails on GNU/Linux with glibc 2.31 (but not on
>> GNU/kFreeBSD nor GNU/Hurd) and Cygwin 2.9. */
>>
>> I agree that it's strange.
>
> ¯\_(ツ)_/ ¯
I'll go ahead and submit a revised patch for the record, and you can decide
whether you want to deviate from Linux. My own opinion is that it can't be bad
to support a flag that Linux doesn't support, but I don't feel strongly about it.
BTW, the mistake in the first version of the patch is that I forgot to specify
PC_SYM_NOFOLLOW in the path_conv constructor.
Ken
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