On 2025-06-02 20:06:40 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Leon Timmermans:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM Florian Weimer via perl5-porters
> > <perl5-port...@perl.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> * Stig Palmquist:
> >>
> >> > References
> >> > ----------
> >> > https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/918bfff86ca8d6d4e4ec5b30994451e0bd74aba9.patch
> >>
> >> Is this fix really correct?
> >>
> >> + ret = fdopendir(dup(my_dirfd(dp)));
> >>
> >> This does not create a separate open file description, only a second
> >> descriptor that shares the read position of the directory stream with
> >> the original directory stream. I think you have to use something like
> >> this:
> >>
> >> ret = fdopendir(openat(my_dirfd(dp), ".", O_DIRECTORY | O_CLOEXEC));
> >
> > Our thread cloning in general is a terribly awkward business, where
> > "what is the correct behavior" isn't always well defined or possible;
> > I can see the arguments for both to be honest.
> >
> > For file descriptors we don't create new file descriptions either (we
> > don't even create new file descriptors, we refcount them), so why
> > should we do so for directory handles? I'm not sure that expectation
> > makes sense in that context.
>
> That's a fair point. It's more like fork in this regard, which has
> similar failure cases for DIR * objects (shared file description, but
> unshared buffers and a separate descriptor).
>
> > And if we did go the openat way, I don't think that seekdir on the new
> > handle with the telldir of the old one is necessarily valid if the
> > directory has been changed (I mean even a rewinddir can invalidate
> > telldir's return value). I don't think we can do a fully correct copy
> > here.
>
> Ugh, I had not considered that. Yes, glibc will have to switch to an
> implementation where telldir offsets are specific to a DIR * for certain
> file systems on 32-bit architectures (because telldir returns long, not
> off_t).
Another issue with
ret = fdopendir(openat(my_dirfd(dp), ".", O_DIRECTORY | O_CLOEXEC));
is that this can fail if the directory permissions have changed:
------------------------------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <dirent.h>
int main (void)
{
const char *dirname = "tstdir-dir";
DIR *dir;
int fd;
errno = 0;
if (mkdir (dirname, 0700) && errno != EEXIST)
return 1;
if (chmod (dirname, 0700))
return 2;
fd = open (dirname, O_DIRECTORY | O_CLOEXEC);
if (fd == -1)
return 3;
dir = fdopendir (fd);
if (!dir)
return 4;
if (chmod (dirname, 0))
return 5;
dir = fdopendir (openat (fd, ".", O_DIRECTORY | O_CLOEXEC));
printf ("dir = %p\n", (void *) dir);
dir = fdopendir (dup (fd));
printf ("dir = %p\n", (void *) dir);
return 0;
}
------------------------------------------------------------------
outputs something like
dir = (nil)
dir = 0x56269b6316f0
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