On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:50:19PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Paul Eggert: > > > On 1/22/20 2:05 PM, Rich Felker wrote: > >> I think we're approaching a consensus that glibc should fix this too, > >> so then it would just be gnulib matching the fix. > > > > I installed the attached patch to Gnulib in preparation for the upcoming > > glibc fix. The patch causes fchmodat with AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW to work on > > non-symlinks, and similarly for lchmod on non-symlinks. The idea is to > > avoid this sort of problem in the future, and to let Coreutils etc. work > > on older platforms as if glibc 2.32 (or whatever) is already in place. > > The lchmod implementation based on /proc tickles an XFS bug: > > <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2020-02/msg00467.html>
Uhg, why does Linux even let the fs driver see whether the chmod is being performed via a filename, O_PATH fd, or magic symlink in /proc? It should just be an operation on the inode. Rich
