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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2018-03-26 16:34:54 +0200
committerSven Eden <yamakuzure@gmx.net>2018-08-24 16:47:08 +0200
commit25c7db66f9272d4ffce2ee5909f54e8522fa1198 (patch)
tree05d988ae8ad8ac1f3056ce209cc3ee8e03f175f2 /src/basic/fs-util.c
parent087bd1d8dd8f3a8b54dfd523873ba85009217d7e (diff)
fs-util: add shortcut for chase_symlinks() when it is called like open(O_PATH)
Let's optimize things, and let the kernel chase the paths if none of the features chase_symlinks() offers are actually used.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/basic/fs-util.c')
-rw-r--r--src/basic/fs-util.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/basic/fs-util.c b/src/basic/fs-util.c
index d43aca249..fe8554842 100644
--- a/src/basic/fs-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/fs-util.c
@@ -649,6 +649,16 @@ int chase_symlinks(const char *path, const char *original_root, unsigned flags,
if (noop_root(original_root))
original_root = NULL;
+ if (!original_root && !ret && (flags & (CHASE_NONEXISTENT|CHASE_NO_AUTOFS|CHASE_SAFE|CHASE_OPEN)) == CHASE_OPEN) {
+ /* Shortcut the CHASE_OPEN case if the caller isn't interested in the actual path and has no root set
+ * and doesn't care about any of the other special features we provide either. */
+ r = open(path, O_PATH|O_CLOEXEC);
+ if (r < 0)
+ return -errno;
+
+ return r;
+ }
+
if (original_root) {
r = path_make_absolute_cwd(original_root, &root);
if (r < 0)