On Tuesday 20 October 2015 15:22:22 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 03:50:31PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 October 2015 14:43:53 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 01:59:10PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > > > > Use RelativePathnameList as type for lists of relative paths, as used in > > > > some listing-alike APIs. This way we can ensure absolute paths in those > > > > lists are rejects outright. > > > > > > > > As a consequence, test-big-dirs.pl does not need to prepend the > > > > directory name anymore before calling listing-alike APIs: previously > > > > they didn't fail, but the returned lists contained only invalid > > > > elements (and only their size was checked). > > > > > > Are these all relative pathnames, or are they in fact just filenames > > > without any path at all. That is to say: is "foo/bar" permitted, or > > > just "bar"? > > > > At least with *lstat*list and *readlinklist functions, the file names > > are considered as relative wrt the path specified, as they are resolved > > against the file descriptor of the directory. > > > > In case of *lxattrlist, the absolute path+name for each is built and > > used as path within the guest. > > > > So yes, "bar", "foo/bar", and "../bar" too, should work. > > I think I really meant -- is it a caller bug if the parameter contains > a slash in it?
I don't know that :) I mean, considering even our code (see my change in test-big-dirs.pl) was passing more than just a filename in the specified path, then I thought relative filenames were somehow intended, and thus I just rejected absolute ones. I'm open to both positions though, either what I proposed in the patches or just reject any file name not in the current directory. > All the *list functions were really intended as optimizations for > fuse/guestmount, and IIRC it was intended that only filenames (not > even relative paths) be used there. They are used also in diff & ls nowadays (still with filenames only though). -- Pino Toscano
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