[Libguestfs] [PATCH] daemon/file.c: remove duplicate absolute-path check

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:50:10AM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Also note that most (all?) paths get rewritten in the non-generated
> > code to prefix them with the content of the sysroot global variable.
> > (See: sysroot, sysroot_path and the %R custom printf spec).  This is
> > particularly error-prone and probably another candidate for
> > automation.
> 
> Thanks.
> I'm working on this now.

I had a think about the particular case of 'Path' over the weekend,
and I think that would have to turn into two parameters (in the
daemon), ie:

int
do_somecmd (const char *path, const char *sysroot_path)
{
  if (something_with (sysroot_path) == -1) {
    reply_with_error (path);

The reason is that functions use the original path or the
prefixed path in various places.

Original path for:

 - error messages
 - syscalls inside CHROOT_IN/CHROOT_OUT brackets

Path prefixed with sysroot for:

 - anything outside chroot

Escaped path (%Q / %R) for:

 - shell commands (eg. popen, system)

Rich.

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