svn commit: r229966 - head/lib/libutil

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 04:35:26PM +0000, Guy Helmer wrote:
> Author: ghelmer
> Date: Wed Jan 11 16:35:26 2012
> New Revision: 229966
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/229966
> 
> Log:
>   jilles pointed out that O_CLOEXEC could be used in the open(2) flags
>   rather than using fcntl(2) later, and in addition to saving a system
>   call, removes a possible race with fork/exec from threads or signal
>   handlers.

So now we can remove fcntl() as the source of possible pidfile_open()
errnos from the manual page.:)

> Modified:
>   head/lib/libutil/pidfile.c
> 
> Modified: head/lib/libutil/pidfile.c
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/lib/libutil/pidfile.c	Wed Jan 11 15:00:16 2012	(r229965)
> +++ head/lib/libutil/pidfile.c	Wed Jan 11 16:35:26 2012	(r229966)
> @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ pidfile_open(const char *path, mode_t mo
>  	 * pidfile_write() can be called multiple times.
>  	 */
>  	fd = flopen(pfh->pf_path,
> -	    O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_NONBLOCK, mode);
> +	    O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK, mode);
>  	if (fd == -1) {
>  		if (errno == EWOULDBLOCK && pidptr != NULL) {
>  			count = 20;
> @@ -139,19 +139,6 @@ pidfile_open(const char *path, mode_t mo
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * Prevent the file descriptor from escaping to other
> -	 * programs via exec(3).
> -	 */
> -	if (fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) == -1) {
> -		error = errno;
> -		unlink(pfh->pf_path);
> -		close(fd);
> -		free(pfh);
> -		errno = error;
> -		return (NULL);
> -	}
> -
> -	/*
>  	 * Remember file information, so in pidfile_write() we are sure we write
>  	 * to the proper descriptor.
>  	 */

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
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