From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: File locking and emacs_readlinkat
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:57:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vc9gi8db.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
On Posix platforms, we use emacs_readlinkat in filelock.c to read
information about a locked file. That information is encoded as the
name of the target of the symlink, and it has the following format:
USER@HOST.PID:BOOT-TIME
However, emacs_readlinkat has a special feature up its sleeve intended
to support symlinks to remote files:
val = build_string (buf);
if (buf[0] == '/' && strchr (buf, ':'))
val = concat2 (build_string ("/:"), val);
But since in the case of filelock.c, the target of the symlink is not
a file name at all, couldn't this magic cause surprising effects for
unusual USER names? Can a user name on a Posix system begin with a
slash?
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2013-02-25 17:57 Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-02-25 18:14 ` File locking and emacs_readlinkat Andreas Schwab
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