From: Martin Sebor <msebor@gmail.com>
To: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] correct readlinkat attribute access (BZ #27024)
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2021 13:52:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e3b1dce-ed69-ada4-3e97-16560c4886d2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b39497cd-12ae-981c-73d4-22e99d57ba77@gmail.com>
I committed & pushed this in g:2cd361b511.
Martin
On 1/7/21 5:49 PM, Martin Sebor wrote:
> The mode in the new attribute access added in g:06febd8c670
> to readlinkat() for the third argument is wrong: it's read_only
> but the function writes into the object. The mode should be
> write_only.
>
> The trivial patch below corrects this mistake. Unless there
> are objections I'll go ahead and commit it in the next few days.
>
> Martin
>
> diff --git a/posix/unistd.h b/posix/unistd.h
> index 1306aded46..3f22763379 100644
> --- a/posix/unistd.h
> +++ b/posix/unistd.h
> @@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ extern int symlinkat (const char *__from, int __tofd,
> /* Like readlink but a relative PATH is interpreted relative to FD. */
> extern ssize_t readlinkat (int __fd, const char *__restrict __path,
> char *__restrict __buf, size_t __len)
> - __THROW __nonnull ((2, 3)) __wur __attr_access ((__read_only__, 3,
> 4));
> + __THROW __nonnull ((2, 3)) __wur __attr_access ((__write_only__,
> 3, 4));
> #endif
>
> /* Remove the link NAME. */
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-10 20:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-08 0:49 Martin Sebor
2021-01-08 4:31 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-01-08 9:06 ` Samuel Thibault
2021-01-08 9:08 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2021-01-10 20:52 ` Martin Sebor [this message]
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