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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>, xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] xfsprogs: libxcmd/paths: make all comparisons using realpath'd paths
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:11:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C3E50A.3020801@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140714123430.GD14369@bfoster.bfoster>

On 7/14/14, 7:34 AM, Brian Foster wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 08:34:24PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Both mountpoints and devices can be symlinks, so given a path
>> to look for, and mountpoints/devices from the system, use
>> realpath() on *everything* before making the comparison to see
>> if our path is a match.
>>
>> So, with symlinks for mount points as well as for devices:

<snip>

>> @@ -337,7 +350,7 @@ fs_table_initialise_mounts(
>>  {
>>  	struct statfs	*stats;
>>  	int		i, count, error, found;
>> -	char		*rpath = NULL;
>> +	char		*rpath = NULL, *rmntfromname= NULL, *rmntonname= NULL;
> 
> A couple missing spaces before '=' here.

whoopsies

> The fundamental change looks good, but the memory allocation handling
> seems a little ugly to me. A 'next:' label in the loop that frees the
> path buffers is cleaner IMO. Another option could be to put a couple
> PATH_MAX buffers on the stack or allocate them directly to also
> eliminate the realpath() return value assignment..?

Yeah, that probably makes more sense, thanks.

-eric


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-14 14:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-12  1:32 [PATCH] xfsprogs: libxcmd/paths: make all comparisons using realpath'd paths Eric Sandeen
2014-07-12  1:34 ` [PATCH V2] " Eric Sandeen
2014-07-14 12:34   ` Brian Foster
2014-07-14 14:11     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2014-07-14 21:21   ` [PATCH V3] " Eric Sandeen
2014-07-15 10:13     ` Christoph Hellwig

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