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changeset 17079:3715020c3d08
fcntl-h: check for AIX 7.1 bug with O_NOFOLLOW and O_CREAT
* m4/fcntl-o.m4 (gl_FCNTL_O_FLAGS): Check for AIX 7.1 bug
that caused a GNU tar test failure. Problem reported by Jez Wain; see
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-07/msg00018.html>.
author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> |
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date | Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:37:18 -0700 |
parents | b9c7d3214b0f |
children | 0d7ea434801b |
files | ChangeLog m4/fcntl-o.m4 |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2012-09-10 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> + + fcntl-h: check for AIX 7.1 bug with O_NOFOLLOW and O_CREAT + * m4/fcntl-o.m4 (gl_FCNTL_O_FLAGS): Check for AIX 7.1 bug + that caused a GNU tar test failure. Problem reported by Jez Wain; see + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2012-07/msg00018.html>. + 2012-09-06 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> net_if: give more details about the bug being fixed
--- a/m4/fcntl-o.m4 +++ b/m4/fcntl-o.m4 @@ -50,7 +50,18 @@ #if HAVE_SYMLINK { static char const sym[] = "conftest.sym"; - if (symlink (".", sym) != 0) + if (symlink ("/dev/null", sym) != 0) + result |= 2; + else + { + int fd = open (sym, O_WRONLY | O_NOFOLLOW | O_CREAT, 0); + if (fd >= 0) + { + close (fd); + result |= 1; + } + } + if (unlink (sym) != 0 || symlink (".", sym) != 0) result |= 2; else {