[PATCH 0/2] Fix a bad case of absolute path handling

[corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com]

From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>

As I told Takashi in PM, I will try to more often send patches to the
cygwin-patches ML before pushing them, so there's a chance to chime in.

This patch series is supposed to address the `rm -rf' problem reported
in https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2021-November/249837.html

It was always frustrating, having to allow DOS drive letter paths for
backward compatibility.  This here is another case of ambiguity,
triggered by the `isabspath' macro handling "X:" as absolute path, even
without the trailing slash or backslash.

Check out the 2nd patch for a more detailed description.

While at it, I wonder if we might have a chance to fix these ambiguities
in a better way.  For instance, consider this:

  $ mkdir -p test/c:
  $ cd test

As non-admin:

  $ touch c:/foo
  touch: cannot touch 'c:/foo': Permission denied

As admin, even worse:

  $ touch c:/foo
  $ ls /cygdrive/c/foo
  foo

As long as we support DOS paths as input, I have a hard time to see how
to fix this, but maybe we can at least minimize the ambiguity somehow.


Corinna


Corinna Vinschen (2):
  Cygwin: drop unused isabspath_u and iswabspath macros
  Cygwin: introduce isabspath_strict macro

 winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc |  2 +-
 winsup/cygwin/winsup.h    | 20 ++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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