[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/2] actions: turn some params into RelativePathnameList (RHBZ#1174551).

[Pino Toscano]

On Tuesday 20 October 2015 15:22:22 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 03:50:31PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 October 2015 14:43:53 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 01:59:10PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> > > > Use RelativePathnameList as type for lists of relative paths, as used in
> > > > some listing-alike APIs.  This way we can ensure absolute paths in those
> > > > lists are rejects outright.
> > > > 
> > > > As a consequence, test-big-dirs.pl does not need to prepend the
> > > > directory name anymore before calling listing-alike APIs: previously
> > > > they didn't fail, but the returned lists contained only invalid
> > > > elements (and only their size was checked).
> > > 
> > > Are these all relative pathnames, or are they in fact just filenames
> > > without any path at all.  That is to say: is "foo/bar" permitted, or
> > > just "bar"?
> > 
> > At least with *lstat*list and *readlinklist functions, the file names
> > are considered as relative wrt the path specified, as they are resolved
> > against the file descriptor of the directory.
> > 
> > In case of *lxattrlist, the absolute path+name for each is built and
> > used as path within the guest.
> > 
> > So yes, "bar", "foo/bar", and "../bar" too, should work.
> 
> I think I really meant -- is it a caller bug if the parameter contains
> a slash in it?

I don't know that :) I mean, considering even our code (see my change
in test-big-dirs.pl) was passing more than just a filename in the
specified path, then I thought relative filenames were somehow intended,
and thus I just rejected absolute ones.

I'm open to both positions though, either what I proposed in the patches
or just reject any file name not in the current directory.

> All the *list functions were really intended as optimizations for
> fuse/guestmount, and IIRC it was intended that only filenames (not
> even relative paths) be used there.

They are used also in diff & ls nowadays (still with filenames only
though).

-- 
Pino Toscano
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