Dear all,
I noticed that the current implementation of mkdtemp() in the compat/ directory does not seem to be correct.
gitmkdtemp() is needed for platforms such as Solaris 9 and 10 which do not implement mkdtemp().
The current implementation (compat/mkdtemp.c):
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char *gitmkdtemp(char *template)
{
if (!mktemp(template) || mkdir(template, 0700))
return NULL;
return template;
}
----seems to be testing the return value of mktemp incorrectly.
mktemp() always returns the argument 'template', even on failure.
This is an extract from Solaris's mktemp(2) manual page:
RETURN VALUES
The mktemp() function will assign to template the empty
string if it cannot create a unique name.Upon failure, 'template' is set to an empty string, i.e., it's first character is '\0'.
The fixed implementation should read:
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char *gitmkdtemp(char *template)
{
if (!*mktemp(template) || mkdir(template, 0700))
return NULL;
return template;
}
----I.e., simply add the pointer dereference operator when calling mktemp().
I have attached a patch against the most current git repo, branch master.
Please let me know if you need the patch in any other way.
From: Filippo Negroni <fnegroni@flexerasoftware.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:39:35 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fixed return value check for mkdtemp implementation.
mktemp() returns an 'empty' string, not a NULL pointer.
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compat/mkdtemp.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)