/* Work around unlink bugs.
Copyright (C) 2009-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the
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This file 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 Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with this program. If not, see . */
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include "filename.h"
#undef unlink
#if defined _WIN32 && !defined __CYGWIN__
# define unlink _unlink
#endif
/* Remove file NAME.
Return 0 if successful, -1 if not. */
int
rpl_unlink (char const *name)
{
/* Work around Solaris 9 bug where unlink("file/") succeeds. */
size_t len = strlen (name);
int result = 0;
if (len && ISSLASH (name[len - 1]))
{
/* We can't unlink(2) something if it doesn't exist. If it does
exist, then it resolved to a directory, due to the trailing
slash, and POSIX requires that the unlink attempt to remove
that directory (which would leave the symlink dangling).
Unfortunately, Solaris 9 is one of the platforms where the
root user can unlink directories, and we don't want to
cripple this behavior on real directories, even if it is
seldom needed (at any rate, it's nicer to let coreutils'
unlink(1) give the correct errno for non-root users). But we
don't know whether name was an actual directory, or a symlink
to a directory; and due to the bug of ignoring trailing
slash, Solaris 9 would end up successfully unlinking the
symlink instead of the directory. Technically, we could use
realpath to find the canonical directory name to attempt
deletion on. But that is a lot of work for a corner case; so
we instead just use an lstat on the shortened name, and
reject symlinks with trailing slashes. The root user of
unlink(1) will just have to live with the rule that they
can't delete a directory via a symlink. */
struct stat st;
result = lstat (name, &st);
if (result == 0 || errno == EOVERFLOW)
{
/* Trailing NUL will overwrite the trailing slash. */
char *short_name = malloc (len);
if (!short_name)
return -1;
memcpy (short_name, name, len);
while (len && ISSLASH (short_name[len - 1]))
short_name[--len] = '\0';
if (len && (lstat (short_name, &st) || S_ISLNK (st.st_mode)))
{
free (short_name);
errno = EPERM;
return -1;
}
free (short_name);
result = 0;
}
}
if (!result)
{
#if UNLINK_PARENT_BUG
if (len >= 2 && name[len - 1] == '.' && name[len - 2] == '.'
&& (len == 2 || ISSLASH (name[len - 3])))
{
errno = EISDIR; /* could also use EPERM */
return -1;
}
#endif
result = unlink (name);
}
return result;
}