1 /* provide a chdir function that tries not to fail due to ENAMETOOLONG
2 Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
18 /* written by Jim Meyering */
24 #include "chdir-long.h"
39 # define O_DIRECTORY 0
43 # error "compile this file only if your system defines PATH_MAX"
52 cdb_init (struct cd_buf *cdb)
58 cdb_fchdir (struct cd_buf const *cdb)
60 return fchdir (cdb->fd);
64 cdb_free (struct cd_buf const *cdb)
68 bool close_fail = close (cdb->fd);
69 assert (! close_fail);
73 /* Given a file descriptor of an open directory (or AT_FDCWD), CDB->fd,
74 try to open the CDB->fd-relative directory, DIR. If the open succeeds,
75 update CDB->fd with the resulting descriptor, close the incoming file
76 descriptor, and return zero. Upon failure, return -1 and set errno. */
78 cdb_advance_fd (struct cd_buf *cdb, char const *dir)
80 int new_fd = openat (cdb->fd, dir,
81 O_RDONLY | O_DIRECTORY | O_NOCTTY | O_NONBLOCK);
91 /* Return a pointer to the first non-slash in S. */
93 find_non_slash (char const *s)
95 size_t n_slash = strspn (s, "/");
96 return (char *) s + n_slash;
99 /* This is a function much like chdir, but without the PATH_MAX limitation
100 on the length of the directory name. A significant difference is that
101 it must be able to modify (albeit only temporarily) the directory
102 name. It handles an arbitrarily long directory name by operating
103 on manageable portions of the name. On systems without the openat
104 syscall, this means changing the working directory to more and more
105 `distant' points along the long directory name and then restoring
106 the working directory. If any of those attempts to save or restore
107 the working directory fails, this function exits nonzero.
109 Note that this function may still fail with errno == ENAMETOOLONG, but
110 only if the specified directory name contains a component that is long
111 enough to provoke such a failure all by itself (e.g. if the component
112 has length PATH_MAX or greater on systems that define PATH_MAX). */
115 chdir_long (char *dir)
118 if (e == 0 || errno != ENAMETOOLONG)
122 size_t len = strlen (dir);
123 char *dir_end = dir + len;
125 size_t n_leading_slash;
129 /* If DIR is the empty string, then the chdir above
130 must have failed and set errno to ENOENT. */
132 assert (PATH_MAX <= len);
134 /* Count leading slashes. */
135 n_leading_slash = strspn (dir, "/");
137 /* Handle any leading slashes as well as any name that matches
138 the regular expression, m!^//hostname[/]*! . Handling this
139 prefix separately usually results in a single additional
140 cdb_advance_fd call, but it's worthwhile, since it makes the
141 code in the following loop cleaner. */
142 if (n_leading_slash == 2)
146 We already know that dir[2] is neither a slash nor '\0'. */
147 char *slash = memchr (dir + 3, '/', dir_end - (dir + 3));
150 errno = ENAMETOOLONG;
154 err = cdb_advance_fd (&cdb, dir);
158 dir = find_non_slash (slash + 1);
160 else if (n_leading_slash)
162 if (cdb_advance_fd (&cdb, "/") != 0)
164 dir += n_leading_slash;
167 assert (*dir != '/');
168 assert (dir <= dir_end);
170 while (PATH_MAX <= dir_end - dir)
173 /* Find a slash that is PATH_MAX or fewer bytes away from dir.
174 I.e. see if there is a slash that will give us a name of
175 length PATH_MAX-1 or less. */
176 char *slash = memrchr (dir, '/', PATH_MAX);
179 errno = ENAMETOOLONG;
184 assert (slash - dir < PATH_MAX);
185 err = cdb_advance_fd (&cdb, dir);
190 dir = find_non_slash (slash + 1);
195 if (cdb_advance_fd (&cdb, dir) != 0)
199 if (cdb_fchdir (&cdb) != 0)
207 int saved_errno = errno;
218 # include "closeout.h"
224 main (int argc, char *argv[])
230 program_name = argv[0];
231 atexit (close_stdout);
233 len = getline (&line, &n, stdin);
236 int saved_errno = errno;
240 error (EXIT_FAILURE, saved_errno,
241 "reading standard input");
246 if (line[len-1] == '\n')
249 if (chdir_long (line) != 0)
250 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno,
251 "chdir_long failed: %s", line);
255 /* Using `pwd' here makes sense only if it is a robust implementation,
256 like the one in coreutils after the 2004-04-19 changes. */
257 char const *cmd = "pwd";
258 execlp (cmd, (char *) NULL);
259 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "%s", cmd);
271 compile-command: "gcc -DTEST_CHDIR=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.. -g -O -W -Wall chdir-long.c libcoreutils.a"