[libvirt] [PATCH] Add a rule to check for uses of readlink.

[Daniel Veillard]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:00:58AM -0600, Jamie Strandboge wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 11:33 -0500, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  .x-sc_prohibit_readlink |    2 ++
> >  cfg.mk                  |    5 +++++
> >  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 .x-sc_prohibit_readlink
> 
> This breaks AppArmor (see why in my response to the AppArmor change).
> Readlink() can be used safely, so perhaps the check can be done such
> that if using readlink, you must check the return code. Or simply warn
> if using readlink.
> 
> virFileResolveLink() behaves substantially differently than readlink()
> and deprecating readlink() without adjusting virFileResolveLink() is
> IMHO unwise (while AppArmor is the only thing affected atm, it seems at
> least possible that new future code may need/want to readlink() things
> in /proc (eg /proc/self/exe)). 
> 
> Jamie

  I understand this as being resolved by gnulib implementation, in which
case ACK to the make check addition,

Daniel

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