/* Work around unlink bugs. Copyright (C) 2009-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ #include #include #include #include #include #include #include "filename.h" #undef unlink #if defined _WIN32 && !defined __CYGWIN__ # define unlink _unlink #endif /* Remove file NAME. Return 0 if successful, -1 if not. */ int rpl_unlink (char const *name) { /* Work around Solaris 9 bug where unlink("file/") succeeds. */ size_t len = strlen (name); int result = 0; if (len && ISSLASH (name[len - 1])) { /* We can't unlink(2) something if it doesn't exist. If it does exist, then it resolved to a directory, due to the trailing slash, and POSIX requires that the unlink attempt to remove that directory (which would leave the symlink dangling). Unfortunately, Solaris 9 is one of the platforms where the root user can unlink directories, and we don't want to cripple this behavior on real directories, even if it is seldom needed (at any rate, it's nicer to let coreutils' unlink(1) give the correct errno for non-root users). But we don't know whether name was an actual directory, or a symlink to a directory; and due to the bug of ignoring trailing slash, Solaris 9 would end up successfully unlinking the symlink instead of the directory. Technically, we could use realpath to find the canonical directory name to attempt deletion on. But that is a lot of work for a corner case; so we instead just use an lstat on the shortened name, and reject symlinks with trailing slashes. The root user of unlink(1) will just have to live with the rule that they can't delete a directory via a symlink. */ struct stat st; result = lstat (name, &st); if (result == 0 || errno == EOVERFLOW) { /* Trailing NUL will overwrite the trailing slash. */ char *short_name = malloc (len); if (!short_name) return -1; memcpy (short_name, name, len); while (len && ISSLASH (short_name[len - 1])) short_name[--len] = '\0'; if (len && (lstat (short_name, &st) || S_ISLNK (st.st_mode))) { free (short_name); errno = EPERM; return -1; } free (short_name); result = 0; } } if (!result) { #if UNLINK_PARENT_BUG if (len >= 2 && name[len - 1] == '.' && name[len - 2] == '.' && (len == 2 || ISSLASH (name[len - 3]))) { errno = EISDIR; /* could also use EPERM */ return -1; } #endif result = unlink (name); } return result; }