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From: "Morten Welinder" <mwelinder@gmail.com>
To: "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] opening files in remote.c should ensure it is opening a file
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:15:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <118833cc0802081215t380587f6w7b5c0aba66a55799@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080208174654.2e9e679c@pc09.procura.nl>

> +/* Helper function to ensure that we are opening a file and not a directory */
> +static FILE *open_file(char *full_path)
> +{
> +       struct stat st_buf;
> +       if (stat(full_path, &st_buf) || !S_ISREG(st_buf.st_mode))
> +               return NULL;
> +       return (fopen(full_path, "r"));
> +}

That looks wrong.  stat+fopen has a pointless race condition that
open+fstat+fdopen would not have.

Morten

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-08 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-08 16:46 [PATCH] opening files in remote.c should ensure it is opening a file H.Merijn Brand
2008-02-08 17:25 ` Mike Ralphson
2008-02-08 20:04   ` H.Merijn Brand
2008-02-18  9:10     ` H.Merijn Brand
2008-02-18  9:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-18 11:31         ` H.Merijn Brand
2008-02-08 20:36   ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-08 20:44     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-09  5:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-09  5:54       ` Daniel Barkalow
2008-02-08 20:09 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-08 20:38   ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-09 10:03   ` H.Merijn Brand
2008-02-08 20:15 ` Morten Welinder [this message]
2008-02-08 20:33   ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-08 20:40     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 21:19       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-08 21:47         ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-08 20:58     ` Brandon Casey
2008-02-08 21:14       ` Brandon Casey
2008-02-09  5:12       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-09  1:20     ` Brandon Casey
2008-02-09  2:32       ` [PATCH] Add compat/fopen.c which returns NULL on attempt to open directory Brandon Casey
2008-02-11  9:29         ` H.Merijn Brand
2008-02-11 10:15           ` H.Merijn Brand
2008-02-12  0:20             ` Junio C Hamano
2008-02-12 15:27               ` H.Merijn Brand

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