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From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: elfutils-devel@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] ar, ranlib: Call fchown before fchmod, explicitly check and ignore errors.
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 20:52:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <376287e529c7e38158105bce0b64d73511e84e01.camel@klomp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200616222539.29109-6-mark@klomp.org>

On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 00:25 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> In ar and ranlib we don't mind if the fchown call fails (it normally
> would, then the file simply gets own by the current user). We used to
> call fchown before fchmod, but that might ignore (or reset) some mode
> flags, so call fchown first, then try fchmod (like we already do in
> elfcompress). Also explicitly test and then ignore any errors for
> chown. We used to do some asm trick, but that confuses some static
> analyzers (and it is somewhat unreadable). Also split out the giant
> if statements to make them a little bit more understandable.

Pushed to master.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-19 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-16 22:25 [PATCH 01/10] backends: Make the reloc_nametable zero element an one char array Mark Wielaard
2020-06-16 22:25 ` [PATCH 02/10] libdw: Add missing FALLTHROUGH in execute_cfi Mark Wielaard
2020-06-19 12:56   ` Mark Wielaard
2020-06-16 22:25 ` [PATCH 03/10] elflint: Explicitly check and ignore elf_compress error Mark Wielaard
2020-06-19 13:48   ` Mark Wielaard
2020-06-16 22:25 ` [PATCH 04/10] libdwfl: When we find a compressed image, use that, don't search for others Mark Wielaard
2020-06-19 17:03   ` Mark Wielaard
2020-06-16 22:25 ` [PATCH 05/10] libdwfl: Flag an error if CIE return_address_register is invalid Mark Wielaard
2020-06-19 17:58   ` Mark Wielaard
2020-06-16 22:25 ` [PATCH 06/10] ar, ranlib: Call fchown before fchmod, explicitly check and ignore errors Mark Wielaard
2020-06-19 18:52   ` Mark Wielaard [this message]
2020-06-16 22:25 ` [PATCH 07/10] debuginfod: Handle not being able to fopen interval_path Mark Wielaard
2020-06-24 15:04   ` Mark Wielaard
2020-06-16 22:25 ` [PATCH 08/10] debuginfod: Make sure suffix can place zero terminator when copying filename Mark Wielaard
2020-06-16 22:25 ` [PATCH 09/10] debuginfod: Fix build_id hexadecimal length check Mark Wielaard
2020-06-16 22:25 ` [PATCH 10/10] debuginfod: Make sure handle_data can be allocated and is always freed Mark Wielaard
2020-06-19 11:43 ` [PATCH 01/10] backends: Make the reloc_nametable zero element an one char array Mark Wielaard

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