All this function does is place some data in an in-memory read-only fd,
that may be read back to get the original data back.
Doing this in a way that works everywhere, given the different kernels
we support as well as different privilege levels is surprisingly
complex.
We are using the same pattern at various places: call dup2() on an fd,
and close the old fd, usually in combination with some O_CLOEXEC
fiddling. Let's add a little helper for this, and port a few obvious
cases over.
This moves pretty much all uses of getpid() over to getpid_raw(). I
didn't specifically check whether the optimization is worth it for each
replacement, but in order to keep things simple and systematic I
switched over everything at once.
There are some places in the systemd which are use the same pattern:
fd_cloexec(STDIN_FILENO, false);
fd_cloexec(STDOUT_FILENO, false);
fd_cloexec(STDERR_FILENO, false);
to unset CLOEXEC for standard file descriptors. This patch introduces
the stdio_unset_cloexec() function to hide this and make code cleaner.
In standard linux parlance, "hidden" usually means that the file name starts
with ".", and nothing else. Rename the function to convey what the function does
better to casual readers.
Stop exposing hidden_file_allow_backup which is rather ugly and rewrite
hidden_file to extract the suffix first. Note that hidden_file_allow_backup
excluded files with "~" at the end, which is quite confusing. Let's get
rid of it before it gets used in the wrong place.
This should allow tools like rkt to pre-mount read-only subtrees in the OS
tree, without breaking the patching code.
Note that the code will still fail, if the top-level directory is already
read-only.