On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 20:12:45 +0200 Roland Mainz wrote:
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>> Attached (as "astksh20130719_cd_fix001.diff.txt") is a patch to fix
>> the following issues with the cd(1) buildin:
>> 1. error handling in cd(1) is fixed
>> 2. cd(1) no longer uses |stat()| to validate whether the opened file
>> name is a directory if |O_DIRECTORY| is set. This saves a syscall.
>> 3. cd(1) now opens directories first without |O_SEARCH| and if this
>> fails tries again with |O_SEARCH|. This is mainly to ensure the error
>> messages are the same as for other shells. This could should not be
>> moved into libast since this backwards-compatibility support is only
>> for the cd(1) builtin. Needed for Solaris/Illumos to boot correctly...
>> ;-/
>
> I don't understand why this is specific to the cd(1) builtin
> it seems that any other open(O_DIRECTORY) would want to report the same error
> when dealing with an XATTR file

Erm... the issue is with  |O_SEARCH| and not |O_DIRECTORY|. The errno
code and therefore the error message from cd(1) changes... which
becomes an issue if you have shell code like [[ $(LC_ALL=C cd
nfsdir123 2>&1) == *blablamsg* ]] in the boot sequence... I don't have
the details (AFAIK it's |EACCESS| vs. |EPERM|) around right now and
need to boot Solaris to dig it out... may need a few hours until I
other builds in other VMs have finished so that I can shut them down
and boot Solaris...

----

Bye,
Roland

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