Public bug reported:
The whole pidfile_xxx suite, besides being unnecessarily complicated
compared to 1 function in NetBSD, does not do what it says on the tin.
Complications. 4 functions instead of one. pidfile_open requires
pidptr, but doesn't use it. The other functions require an argument
that the documentation says isn't needed, but is.
Error. Most important, pidfile_close modifies its argument such that
pidfile_remove can't use it: both the file descriptor and the name are
destroyed.
The following program and associated output illustrates the problem.
#include <err.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <bsd/libutil.h>
void
show_pfh( const char func[], struct pidfh * pfh ) {
printf( "%s: fh = %d, name = %s\n", func, pfh->pf_fd, pfh->pf_path );
}
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
pid_t pid;
struct pidfh * pfh = pidfile_open("/tmp/foo.pid", 0644, &pid);
if( !pfh ) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "pidfile_open");
}
show_pfh("open", pfh);
if( -1 == pidfile_write(pfh) ) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "pidfile_write");
}
show_pfh("write", pfh);
if( -1 == pidfile_close(pfh) ) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "pidfile_close");
}
show_pfh("close", pfh);
if( -1 == pidfile_remove(pfh) ) {
err(EXIT_FAILURE, "pidfile_remove");
}
show_pfh("remove", pfh);
return 0;
}
$ ./pid
open: fh = 3, name = /tmp/foo.pid
write: fh = 3, name = /tmp/foo.pid
close: fh = 0, name =
pid: pidfile_remove: Invalid argument
$ grep -iE 'name|version' /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial
$ gcc --version | grep ^gcc
gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.11) 5.4.0 20160609
$ ldd pid
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fffc79b6000)
libbsd.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007f72ee343000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f72edf79000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f72ee558000)
** Affects: libbsd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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pidfile_close prevents pidfile_remove from working
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