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Bugtraq Archives: Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep

Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep

Subject: Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep
From: Goetz Babin-Ebell (babinebellTRUSTCENTER.DE)
Date: Tue Jan 04 2000 - 05:11:19 CST

At 21:24 03.01.00 +0100, Olaf Kirch wrote:
>Hi all,
Hallo Olaf,

>when you're dealing with files in /tmp that are supposed to be re-opened
>(rather than opened once and then discarded) there's an established
>way to do it which goes like this:
>
> if (lstat(fname, &stb1) >= 0 && S_ISREG(stb1.st_mode)) {
> fd = open(fname, O_RDWR);
> if (fd < 0 || fstat(fd, &stb2) < 0
> || ino_or_dev_mismatch(&stb1, &stb2))
> raise_big_stink()
> } else {
> /* do the O_EXCL thing */
> }

I did something that way:

FILE *DoOpen(const char *cpFile, long bAppend)
{
   FILE *spNew;
   FILE *spTest;
   struct stat sStat;

   spTest = fopen(cpFile,"a");
   if (!spTest)
   {
      Log("ERR FILE OPEN",cpFile);
      return NULL;
   }
   if (lstat(cpFile,&sStat))
   {
      Log("ERR STAT",cpFile);
      return NULL;
   }
   if ((sStat.st_mode & S_IFMT) == S_IFLNK)
   {
      fclose(spTest);
      Log("ERR ISLINK",cpFile);
      return NULL;
   }
   if (bAppend)
      spNew = spTest;
   else
   {
      spNew = freopen(cpFile,"w",spTest);
      fclose(spTest);
   }
   if (!spNew)
   {
      Log("ERR FILE OPEN",cpFile);
      return NULL;
   }
   return spFile;
}

Comments ?
Improvements ?

By

Goetz 

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