With the addition of _cleanup_close_ there's a repetitious
pattern of assigning -1 to the fd after a successful fdopen
to prevent its close on cleanup now that the FILE * owns the
fd.
This introduces a wrapper that instead takes a pointer to the
fd being opened, and always overwrites the fd with -1 on success.
A future commit will cleanup all the fdopen call sites to use the
wrapper and elide the manual -1 fd assignment.
usually we want to create new files with mode 0666 (modulated by the
umask). Sometimes we want more restrictive access though, let's add an
explicit flag support for that.
(Note that we don't bother with arbitrary access modes to keep things
simple: just "open as umask permits" and "private to me", nothing else)
This adds xfopenat() which is to fopen() what xopendirat() is to
opendir(), i.e. the "at" counterpart to fopen().
(Similar to the xopendir() case, we prefix this with "x", in case libc
gains this natively eventually.)
Virtual filesystems such as sysfs or procfs use kernfs, and kernfs can work
with two sorts of virtual files.
One sort uses "seq_file", and the results of the first read are buffered for
the second read. The other sort uses "raw" reads which always go direct to the
device.
In the later case, the content of the virtual file must be retrieved with a
single read otherwise subsequent read might get the new value instead of
finding EOF immediately. That's the reason why the usage of fread(3) is
prohibited in this case as it always performs a second call to read(2) looking
for EOF which is subject to the race described previously.
Fixes: #13585.
read_line() is a lot more careful and optimized than read_nul_string()
but does mostly the same thing. let's replace the latter by the former,
just with a special flag that toggles between the slightly different EOL
rules if both.
This splits out a bunch of functions from fileio.c that have to do with
temporary files. Simply to make the header files a bit shorter, and to
group things more nicely.
No code changes, just some rearranging of source files.
Now that we don't (mis-)use the env file parser to parse kernel command
lines there's no need anymore to override the used newline character
set. Let's hence drop the argument and just "\n\r" always. This nicely
simplifies our code.
All users of the macro (except for one, in serialize.c), use the macro in
connection with read_line(), so they must include fileio.h. Let's not play
libc games and require multiple header file to be included for the most common
use of a function.
The removal of def.h includes is not exact. I mostly went over the commits that
switch over to use read_line() and add def.h at the same time and reverted the
addition of def.h in those files.
These lines are generally out-of-date, incomplete and unnecessary. With
SPDX and git repository much more accurate and fine grained information
about licensing and authorship is available, hence let's drop the
per-file copyright notice. Of course, removing copyright lines of others
is problematic, hence this commit only removes my own lines and leaves
all others untouched. It might be nicer if sooner or later those could
go away too, making git the only and accurate source of authorship
information.
This part of the copyright blurb stems from the GPL use recommendations:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
The concept appears to originate in times where version control was per
file, instead of per tree, and was a way to glue the files together.
Ultimately, we nowadays don't live in that world anymore, and this
information is entirely useless anyway, as people are very welcome to
copy these files into any projects they like, and they shouldn't have to
change bits that are part of our copyright header for that.
hence, let's just get rid of this old cruft, and shorten our codebase a
bit.
Let's always write "1 << 0", "1 << 1" and so on, except where we need
more than 31 flag bits, where we write "UINT64(1) << 0", and so on to force
64bit values.
Most our other parsing functions do this, let's do this here too,
internally we accept that anyway. Also, the closely related
load_env_file() and load_env_file_pairs() also do this, so let's be
systematic.
Files which are installed as-is (any .service and other unit files, .conf
files, .policy files, etc), are left as is. My assumption is that SPDX
identifiers are not yet that well known, so it's better to retain the
extended header to avoid any doubt.
I also kept any copyright lines. We can probably remove them, but it'd nice to
obtain explicit acks from all involved authors before doing that.
fputs() writes only first 2048 bytes and fails
to write to /proc when values are larger than that.
This patch adds a new flag to WriteStringFileFlags
that make it possible to disable the buffer under
specific cases.
read_line() is much like getline(), and returns a line read from a
FILE*, of arbitrary sizes. In contrast to gets() it will grow the buffer
dynamically, and in contrast to getline() it will place a user-specified
boundary on the line.
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek