[PATCH 6/5] NUL hack to create_file()

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 29, 2008, 00:17 UTC
Message-ID: <1212020246-26480-7-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <1212020246-26480-6-git-send-email-gitster@pobox.com>

This is not meant for application to the mainline. It allows your git to refuse to create a blob whose name is "nul".

---
 entry.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/entry.c b/entry.c
index 222aaa3..d24b803 100644
--- a/entry.c
+++ b/entry.c
@@ -81,6 +81,14 @@ static void remove_subtree(const char *path)
 
 static int create_file(const char *path, unsigned int mode)
 {
+	if (1) {
+		size_t len = strlen(path);
+		if (3 <= len && !strcmp(path + len - 3, "nul") &&
+		    (3 == len || path[len - 4] == '/')) {
+			errno = EPERM;
+			return -1;
+		}
+	}
 	mode = (mode & 0100) ? 0777 : 0666;
 	return open(path, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, mode);
 }

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