On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Roland Mainz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> ----
>
> The following code from one of my test scripts no longer work in
> ast-ksh.2013-09-26 on Solaris 11/AMD64/64bit:
> -- snip --
> $ ksh -c 'redirect {n}<. ; redirect {m}</dev/file/flags@xattr@/dev/fd/$n '
> /home/test001/bin/ksh: /dev/file/flags@xattr@/dev/fd/11: cannot open
> [Invalid argument]
> -- snip --
>
> This fails because of the following code tries to open the parent dir
> of an XATTR dir via:
> -- snip --
>    227  #if O_XATTR
>    228                          if ((f = openat(dev.fd, ".",
> O_INTERCEPT|O_RDONLY|O_XATTR)) >= 0)
>    229                          {
>    230                                  fd = openat(f, "..",
> oflags|O_INTERCEPT, mode);
>    231                                  close(f);
>    232                                  return fd;
>    233                          }
>    234  #endif
> -- snip --
>
> ... erm.. I don't understand this... what is this code trying to do ?

This patch fixes the problem:
-- snip --
diff -r -u original/src/lib/libast/path/pathopen.c
build_i386_64bit_debug/src/lib/libast/path/pathopen.c
--- src/lib/libast/path/pathopen.c     2013-08-29 07:17:52.000000000 +0200
+++ src/lib/libast/path/pathopen.c       2013-09-27 04:06:38.362136396 +0200
@@ -222,16 +222,12 @@

                        /* preserve open() semantics if possible */

-                       if (oflags & (O_DIRECTORY|O_SEARCH))
-                               return openat(dev.fd, ".",
oflags|O_INTERCEPT, mode);
-#if O_XATTR
-                       if ((f = openat(dev.fd, ".",
O_INTERCEPT|O_RDONLY|O_XATTR)) >= 0)
-                       {
-                               fd = openat(f, "..", oflags|O_INTERCEPT, mode);
-                               close(f);
-                               return fd;
-                       }
+                       if (oflags & (O_DIRECTORY|O_SEARCH
+#ifdef O_XATTR
+                               |O_XATTR
 #endif
+                               ))
+                               return openat(dev.fd, ".",
oflags|O_INTERCEPT, mode);

                        /* see if the filesystem groks
.../[<pid>]/<fd>/... paths */
-- snip --

----

Bye,
Roland

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