-/**
- * @brief Determine if the given file descriptor might refer to an
- * (unsafe) hard link.
- *
- * @param fd
- * The file descriptor whose link count we want to investigate.
- *
- * @return true if we are certain that @c fd does not describe a hard
- * link, and false otherwise. In case of error, false is returned,
- * because we are not sure that @c fd is not a hard link.
- */
-bool is_hardlink_safe(int fd) {
- if (fd <= 0) {
- return false;
- }
- struct stat s;
- if (fstat(fd, &s) == 0) {
- return (s.st_nlink == 1 || S_ISDIR(s.st_mode));
- }
- else {
- return false;
- }
-}
-
-
-/**
- * @brief Determine whether or not the given file descriptor is for
- * a regular file.
- *
- * @param fd
- * The file descriptor to test for regular-fileness.
- *
- * @return true if @c fd describes a regular file, and false otherwise.
- */
-bool is_regular_file(int fd) {
- if (fd <= 0) {
- return false;
- }
-
- struct stat s;
- if (fstat(fd, &s) == 0) {
- return S_ISREG(s.st_mode);
- }
- else {
- return false;
- }
-}
-
-
-
/**
* @brief Determine whether or not the given path is accessible.
*
* between when we open the file descriptor (look above) and when we
* fstat it.
*/
- if (!is_hardlink_safe(fd)) {
- result = ACL_FAILURE;
+ struct stat s;
+ if (fstat(fd, &s) == -1) {
+ perror("apply_default_acl (fstat)");
goto cleanup;
}
-
- if (!is_regular_file(fd) && !is_directory(fd)) {
- result = ACL_FAILURE;
- goto cleanup;
+ if (!S_ISDIR(s.st_mode)) {
+ /* If it's not a directory, make sure it's a regular,
+ non-hard-linked file. */
+ if (!S_ISREG(s.st_mode) || s.st_nlink != 1) {
+ result = ACL_FAILURE;
+ goto cleanup;
+ }
}
+
/* Default to not masking the exec bit; i.e. applying the default
ACL literally. If --no-exec-mask was not specified, then we try
to "guess" whether or not to mask the exec bit. */