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+/* 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 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+/* written by Paul Eggert */
+
+#include <config.h>
+
+/* Specification. */
+#include <sys/stat.h>
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#ifdef __osf__
+/* Write "sys/stat.h" here, not <sys/stat.h>, otherwise OSF/1 5.1 DTK cc
+ eliminates this include because of the preliminary #include <sys/stat.h>
+ above. */
+# include "sys/stat.h"
+#else
+# include <sys/stat.h>
+#endif
+
+#include <intprops.h>
+
+/* 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. <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14578> */
+ 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);
+}