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Re: detect . in a/.//


On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:24:38AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 06:07:29AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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>>My testing on rename found another corner case: we rejected
>>rename("dir","a/./") but accepted rename("dir","a/.//").  OK to commit?
>>
>>For reference, the test I am writing for hammering rename() and renameat()
>>corner cases is currently visible here; it will be part of the next
>>coreutils release, among other places.  It currently stands at 400+ lines,
>>and exposes bugs in NetBSD, Solaris 10, mingw, and cygwin 1.5, but passes
>>on cygwin 1.7 (after this patch) and on Linux:
>>http://repo.or.cz/w/gnulib/ericb.git?a=blob;f=tests/test-rename.h
>>
>>2009-09-30  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
>>
>>	* path.cc (has_dot_last_component): Detect "a/.//".
>
>No, I don't think so.  I don't think this function is right.  It
>shouldn't be doing a strrchr(dir, '//).  And the formatting is off
>slightly.
>
>Is this function supposed to detect just "." or "*/."?

Assuming the answer is yes, then how about the below?  I added a bunch of
comments but the function is still fairly small.

I've attached the function as-is since I basically rewrote it.

cgf

bool
has_dot_last_component (const char *dir, bool test_dot_dot)
{
  /* SUSv3: . and .. are not allowed as last components in various system
     calls.  Don't test for backslash path separator since that's a Win32
     path following Win32 rules. */
  const char *last_comp = strrchr (dir, '\0');

  if (last_comp == dir)
    return false;       /* Empty string.  Probably shouldn't happen here? */

  /* Detect run of trailing slashes */
  while (last_comp > dir && *--last_comp == '/')
    continue;

  /* Detect just a run of slashes or a path that does not end with a slash. */
  if (*last_comp != '.')
    return false;

  /* We know we have a trailing dot here.  Check that it really is a standalone "."
     path component by checking that it is at the beginning of the string or is
     preceded by a "/" */
  if (last_comp == dir || *--last_comp == '/')
    return true;

  /* If we're not checking for '..' we're done.  Ditto if we're now pointing to
     a non-dot. */
  if (!test_dot_dot || *last_comp != '.')
    return false;               /* either not testing for .. or this was not '..' */

  /* Repeat previous test for standalone or path component. */
  return last_comp == dir || last_comp[-1] == '/';
}


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