interface, and statically link them to the programs using them.
These functions, upon reflection and discussion, are too generically
named for a library interface with such specific functionality.
Also the api that they use, whilst ok for private use, isn't good
enough for a libc function.
Additionally there were complications with the build/install-world
process. It depends heavily upon xinstall, which got broken by
the change in api, and caused bootstrap problems and general mayhem.
There is work in progress to address future problems that may be
caused by changes in install-chain tools, and better names for
{g|s}etflags can be derived when some future program requires them.
For now the code has been left in src/lib/libc/gen (it started off
in src/bin/ls).
It's important to provide library functions for manipulating file
flag strings if we ever want this interface to be adopted outside
of the source tree, but now isn't necessarily the right moment
with 4.0-release just around the corner.
Approved: jkh
string to u_long and back using two functions, flags_to_string and
string_to_flags, which co-existed with 'ls'. As time has progressed
more and more other tools have used these private functions to
manipulate the file flags.
Recently I moved these functions from /usr/src/bin/ls to libutil,
but after some discussion with bde it's been decided that they
really ought to go in libc.
There are two already existing libc functions for manipulating file
modes: setmode and getmode. In keeping with these flags_to_string
has been renamed getflags and string_to_flags to setflags.
The manual page could probably be improved upon ;)
I added $FreeBSD$ whicle I was here. The patch wasn't usable anymore
due to its age so I adapted it.
PR: bin/3648
Submitted by: Martin Birgmeier <mbirg@austria.ds.philips.com>
execvp() in the child branch of a vfork(). Changed to use fork()
instead.
Some of these (mv, find, apply, xargs) might benefit greatly from
being rewritten to use vfork() properly.
PR: Loosely related to bin/8252
Approved by: jkh and bde
doesn't know about getvfsbyname() and the vfsconf structure. This
disables the -fstype option if compiled with a pre-processor that
defines __NetBSD__. With the FreeBSD built pre-processor, find can only
be built with the FreeBSD libc. So when running with a NetBSD kernel,
FreeBSD's libc will have to return ENOSYS for things that NetBSD
doesn't support. That's life in a hybrid world.
in question. This change and the fts changes should be merged into 2.2-stable
as soon as they are vetted in -current. This should allow cleaning of files
in /tmp to be reneabled.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
This error results from changing the name for the msdos file system
from "pcfs" to "msdos". Close PR #1105
submitted by: Thomas Wintergerst <thomas@lemur.nord.de>,
Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>
goes to a fair degree of trouble to enable something like this to
be safe: cd /tmp && find . -mtime +7 -delete
It removes both files and directories. It does not attempt to remove
immutable files (an earlier version I showed to a few people did a chflags
and tried to blow away even immutable files. Too risky..)
It is thought to be safe because it forces the fts(3) driven descent to
only do "minimal risk" stuff. specifically, -follow is disabled, it does
checking to see that it chdir'ed to the directory it thought it was
going to, it will *not* pass a pathname with a '/' character in it to
unlink(), so it should be totally immune to symlink tree races. If it runs
into something "fishy", it bails out rather than blunder ahead.. It's better
to do that if somebody is trying to compromise security rather than risk
giving them an opportunity. Since the unlink()/rmdir() is being called
from within the current working directory during the tree descent, there
are no fork/exec overheads or races.
As a side effect of this paranoia, you cannot do a
"find /somewhere/dir -delete", as the last argument to rmdir() is
"/somewhere/dir", and the checking won't allow it. Besides, one would use
rm -rf for that case anyway. :-)
Reviewed by: pst (some time ago, but I've removed the immutable file
deletion code that he complained about since he last saw it)
[ Find to a file vs. to stdout ] produces different output because find
does not flush stdout when doing a -print.
Submitted by: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freefall.freebsd.org>
