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authorZbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>2018-03-22 13:03:41 +0100
committerSven Eden <yamakuzure@gmx.net>2018-08-24 16:47:08 +0200
commit13102410a7e1867affc236922b26e71269817ab8 (patch)
treebf662e92c776c507fda419b90ae1cec12ee651ab /src/basic/mkdir.h
parent58109c17667483583032bf1b8a3b6991976b68b7 (diff)
tree-wide: warn when a directory path already exists but has bad mode/owner/type
When we are attempting to create directory somewhere in the bowels of /var/lib and get an error that it already exists, it can be quite hard to diagnose what is wrong (especially for a user who is not aware that the directory must have the specified owner, and permissions not looser than what was requested). Let's print a warning in most cases. A warning is appropriate, because such state is usually a sign of borked installation and needs to be resolved by the adminstrator. $ build/test-fs-util Path "/tmp/test-readlink_and_make_absolute" already exists and is not a directory, refusing. (or) Directory "/tmp/test-readlink_and_make_absolute" already exists, but has mode 0775 that is too permissive (0755 was requested), refusing. (or) Directory "/tmp/test-readlink_and_make_absolute" already exists, but is owned by 1001:1000 (1000:1000 was requested), refusing. Assertion 'mkdir_safe(tempdir, 0755, getuid(), getgid(), MKDIR_WARN_MODE) >= 0' failed at ../src/test/test-fs-util.c:320, function test_readlink_and_make_absolute(). Aborting. No functional change except for the new log lines.
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diff --git a/src/basic/mkdir.h b/src/basic/mkdir.h
index 0f089bc72..07d271980 100644
--- a/src/basic/mkdir.h
+++ b/src/basic/mkdir.h
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
typedef enum MkdirFlags {
MKDIR_FOLLOW_SYMLINK = 1 << 0,
+ MKDIR_WARN_MODE = 1 << 1,
} MkdirFlags;
int mkdir_errno_wrapper(const char *pathname, mode_t mode);