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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 PSEUDO_STATBUF change (allowing operations on files over
2GB even on 32-bit systems) introduced a subtle bug; by calling
stat64() rather than real_stat(), pseudo stopped handling
chrooted paths well. In most cases, this was fine, but in the
specific case of a rename, where the stat buffers for the various
parts were actually used, it wasn't. Of particular note, pseudo
could end up creating links which had stack garbage for their
stat buffs, because it assumed that if the rename operation
succeeded, the stat operations must have succeeded.
Of course, there is no real_stat64 in the Linux port, because
there's no need for it; most code is calling __xstat64 or some
relative thereof, and even if you did really call stat64, it'd
end up routed there anyway. So we add that so that it can be
used for calls and we don't have to encode Linux-specific
magic about __xstat into the generic header.
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ignored) rather than flags (where it was needed), meaning that the
open64 type functions didn't work as intended on 32-bit hosts.
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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
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