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[PATCH] Add compat/fopen.c which returns NULL on attempt to open directory

From
Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
Date
Feb 9, 2008, 02:32 UTC
Message-ID
<47AD10CF.1040207@nrlssc.navy.mil>
In-Reply-To
<47ACFFD9.2030705@nrlssc.navy.mil>

Some systems do not fail as expected when fread et al. are called on a directory stream. Replace fopen on such systems which will fail when the supplied path is a directory.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>
---
 Makefile          |    7 +++++++
 compat/fopen.c    |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 git-compat-util.h |    5 +++++
 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 compat/fopen.c
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 92341c4..debfc23 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@ all::
 
 # Define V=1 to have a more verbose compile.
 #
+# Define FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES if your are on a system which succeeds
+# when attempting to read from an fopen'ed directory.
+#
 # Define NO_OPENSSL environment variable if you do not have OpenSSL.
 # This also implies MOZILLA_SHA1.
 #
@@ -618,6 +621,10 @@ endif
 ifdef NO_C99_FORMAT
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_C99_FORMAT
 endif
+ifdef FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES
+	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DFREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES
+	COMPAT_OBJS += compat/fopen.o
+endif
 ifdef NO_SYMLINK_HEAD
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += -DNO_SYMLINK_HEAD
 endif
diff --git a/compat/fopen.c b/compat/fopen.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ccb9e89
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compat/fopen.c
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#include "../git-compat-util.h"
+#undef fopen
+FILE *git_fopen(const char *path, const char *mode)
+{
+	FILE *fp;
+	struct stat st;
+
+	if (mode[0] == 'w' || mode[0] == 'a')
+		return fopen(path, mode);
+
+	if (!(fp = fopen(path, mode)))
+		return NULL;
+
+	if (fstat(fileno(fp), &st)) {
+		fclose(fp);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode)) {
+		fclose(fp);
+		errno = EISDIR;
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	return fp;
+}
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 4df90cb..46d5e93 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -204,6 +204,11 @@ void *gitmemmem(const void *haystack, size_t haystacklen,
                 const void *needle, size_t needlelen);
 #endif
 
+#ifdef FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES
+#define fopen(a,b) git_fopen(a,b)
+extern FILE *git_fopen(const char*, const char*);
+#endif
+
 #ifdef __GLIBC_PREREQ
 #if __GLIBC_PREREQ(2, 1)
 #define HAVE_STRCHRNUL
-- 
1.5.4.26.g5ef4da
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  3. H.Merijn BrandFeb 8, 2008
  4. H.Merijn BrandFeb 18, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2008
  6. H.Merijn BrandFeb 18, 2008
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  8. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2008
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  10. Daniel BarkalowFeb 9, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoFeb 8, 2008
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  14. Morten WelinderFeb 8, 2008
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  21. Junio C HamanoFeb 9, 2008
  22. Brandon CaseyFeb 9, 2008
  23. Add compat/fopen.c which returns NULL on attempt to open directoryBrandon Casey, Feb 9, 2008
  24. H.Merijn BrandFeb 11, 2008
  25. H.Merijn BrandFeb 11, 2008
  26. Junio C HamanoFeb 12, 2008
  27. H.Merijn BrandFeb 12, 2008

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