/* Implement lchmod on platforms where it does not work correctly. Copyright 2020-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* written by Paul Eggert */ #include /* Specification. */ #include #include #include #include #include #ifdef __osf__ /* Write "sys/stat.h" here, not , otherwise OSF/1 5.1 DTK cc eliminates this include because of the preliminary #include above. */ # include "sys/stat.h" #else # include #endif #include /* Work like chmod, except when FILE is a symbolic link. In that case, on systems where permissions on symbolic links are unsupported (such as Linux), set errno to EOPNOTSUPP and return -1. */ int lchmod (char const *file, mode_t mode) { #if defined O_PATH && defined AT_EMPTY_PATH /* Open a file descriptor with O_NOFOLLOW, to make sure we don't follow symbolic links, if /proc is mounted. O_PATH is used to avoid a failure if the file is not readable. Cf. */ int fd = open (file, O_PATH | O_NOFOLLOW | O_CLOEXEC); if (fd < 0) return fd; /* Up to Linux 5.3 at least, when FILE refers to a symbolic link, the chmod call below will change the permissions of the symbolic link - which is undesired - and on many file systems (ext4, btrfs, jfs, xfs, ..., but not reiserfs) fail with error EOPNOTSUPP - which is misleading. Therefore test for a symbolic link explicitly. Use fstatat because fstat does not work on O_PATH descriptors before Linux 3.6. */ struct stat st; if (fstatat (fd, "", &st, AT_EMPTY_PATH) != 0) { int stat_errno = errno; close (fd); errno = stat_errno; return -1; } if (S_ISLNK (st.st_mode)) { close (fd); errno = EOPNOTSUPP; return -1; } # if defined __linux__ || defined __ANDROID__ || defined __CYGWIN__ static char const fmt[] = "/proc/self/fd/%d"; char buf[sizeof fmt - sizeof "%d" + INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (int)]; sprintf (buf, fmt, fd); int chmod_result = chmod (buf, mode); int chmod_errno = errno; close (fd); if (chmod_result == 0) return chmod_result; if (chmod_errno != ENOENT) { errno = chmod_errno; return chmod_result; } # endif /* /proc is not mounted or would not work as in GNU/Linux. */ #elif HAVE_LSTAT struct stat st; int lstat_result = lstat (file, &st); if (lstat_result != 0) return lstat_result; if (S_ISLNK (st.st_mode)) { errno = EOPNOTSUPP; return -1; } #endif /* Fall back on chmod, despite a possible race. */ return chmod (file, mode); }