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Backport from pseudo 1.6 of improvements to fchmodat (handle
AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW by rejecting it if the host system does,
to make GNU tar happier), also mask out write bits from filesystem
modes to avoid security problems.
Also start tracking umask so we can use the right modes for
open, mkdir, and mknod.
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The openembedded build, at least with RPM or SMART, is heavily affected
by the cost of calling fsync or fdatasync on package databases all the
time. Gosh, wouldn't it be nice if we could suppress that without making
dozens of highly intrusive and risky changes into RPM, various database
packages, and so on?
Yes, yes it would. If only there were a program which could intercept
system calls and change their behavior!
Enter --enable-force-async. There are now wrappers for fsync, fdatasync,
and a few related functions. If --enable-force-async is set, these wrappers
instantly return 0, even if PSEUDO_DISABLED is set. And with any luck,
bitbake will now perform a bit better.
Credit for this insight goes to Richard Purdie. I've reimplemented
this to add the configure option, and make the fsync suppression work
even when PSEUDO_DISABLED is set.
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The _plain thing was added because of clashes between Linux
("struct stat64 for 64-bit file sizes") and Darwin ("struct stat
is already 64 bits"). But it turns out not to be enough,
because stat will *fail* if it cannot represent a file size,
so when something like unlinkat() calls a non-64-bit stat in
order to determine whether a file exists, it gets the wrong
answer if the file is over 2GB in size.
Solution: Continue using PSEUDO_STATBUF, and also provide
defines for base_stat() which can be either real_stat() or
real_stat64(), etcetera.
This eliminates any reason to need the _plain functions. It
also suggests that the other real___fxstatat() calls should
someday go away because that is an ugly, ugly, implementation
detail.
As part of testing this, fix up some bitrot which affected
Darwin (such as the continue outside of a loop, but inside
an #ifdef; that was left over from the conversion of
init_one_wrapper to a separate function).
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the 0100 bit for directories. The reason is that otherwise we create
plain files which are 0700 on disk, which means they're non-zero &0111,
which breaks euidaccess(X_OK).
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This is a spiffied-up rebase of a bunch of intermediate changes, presented
as a whole because it is, surprisingly, less confusing that way. The basic
idea is to separate the guts code into categories ranging from generic
stuff that can be the same everywhere and specific variants. The big scary
one is the Darwin support, which actually seems to run okay on 64-bit OS X
10.6. (No other variants were tested.) The other example given is support
for the old clone() syscall on RHEL 4, which affects some wrlinux use cases.
There's a few minor cleanup bits here, such as a function with inconsistent
calling conventions, but nothing really exciting.
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Peter Seebach