On 06/13/2013 10:22 AM, Thomas Rast wrote:
Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu writes:
One race is still possible and undetected: another process could
change the file from a regular file into a symlink between the call to
lstat and the call to open(). The open() call would silently
Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu writes:
One race is still possible and undetected: another process could
change the file from a regular file into a symlink between the call to
lstat and the call to open(). The open() call would silently follow
the symlink and not know that something is
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 04:26:20PM +0200, Michael Haggerty wrote:
Please note that if there is some bizarre filesystem somewhere for
which, for a single, static file
lstat() reports S_ISLNK and readlink() fails with ENOENT or EINVAL
[...]
then the inner loop would never terminate.
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