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__atfct_seterrno() or futimesat() broken


Hi,

if you call futimesat() without kernel syscall support and without
/proc mounted you will get a seg.fault in __atfct_seterrno():

(gdb) down
#0  0x400d8f53 in __atfct_seterrno (errval=2, fd=0,
    buf=0xbfffe4e0 "/proc/self/fd/0") at openat.c:61
61                *(char *) strchr (buf + sizeof "/proc/self/fd", '/') = '\0';


The problem is that all *at.c files uses:
static const char procfd[] = "/proc/self/fd/%d/%s";

except futimesat.c, which does not append the filename after the
file descriptor (as you can see from gdb output).
So the strchr will not find a "/" and the return value is NULL.

First question is: Should futimesat.c append the filename, too, or
should it not call __atfct_seterrno?

Second question about __atfct_seterrno: This function only checks for
ENOTDIR if /proc is mounted. Why? utime() in futimesat.c returns
ENOENT for this case:

utimes("/proc/self/fd/0", NULL)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Shouldn't the check, if /proc is mounted, be the first on in 
__atfct_seterrno?

  Thorsten

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