12547: Handle ENOENT and ENOTDIR in zpathmax().

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2000-08-04  Bart Schaefer  <schaefer@zsh.org>
+
+	* 12547: configure.in, Src/compat.c, Src/Modules/files.c:
+	Handle ENOENT and ENOTDIR within zpathmax(), and therefore back
+	out the changes from 12541 and 12533.
+
 2000-08-04  Clint Adams  <schizo@debian.org>
 
 	* 12541: configure.in, Src/compat.c: zrealpath wrapper around

Src/Modules/files.c

@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ bin_mkdir(char *nam, char **args, char *ops, int func)
     mode_t oumask = umask(0);
     mode_t mode = 0777 & ~oumask;
     int err = 0;
-    char *head;
 
     umask(oumask);
     if(ops['m']) {
@@ -92,19 +91,8 @@ bin_mkdir(char *nam, char **args, char *ops, int func)
 
 	while(ptr > *args + (**args == '/') && *--ptr == '/')
 	    *ptr = 0;
-
+	if(zpathmax(unmeta(*args)) < 0) {
-/* Drop the tail so that pathconf receives a potentially valid pathname */
+	    zwarnnam(nam, "%s: %e", *args, errno);
-	head = (char *) ztrdup(*args);
-	if ((ptr = strrchr(head, '/')))
-	    *ptr = 0;
-	else {
-/* Relative to current directory */
-	    *head = '.';
-	    *(head + 1) = '\0';
-	}
-
-	if(zpathmax(unmeta(head)) < 0) {
-	    zwarnnam(nam, "%s: %e", head, errno);
 	    err = 1;
 	    continue;
 	}
@@ -133,8 +121,6 @@ bin_mkdir(char *nam, char **args, char *ops, int func)
 	    }
 	} else
 	    err |= domkdir(nam, *args, mode, 0);
-
-	free(head);
     }
     return err;
 }

Src/compat.c

@@ -118,21 +118,52 @@ strerror(int errnum)
  * some other flag value) in order to determine that the resource is *
  * unlimited.  What use is leaving errno unchanged?  Instead, define *
  * a wrapper that resets errno to 0 and returns 0 for "the system    *
- * does not have a limit."                                           *
+ * does not have a limit," so that -1 always means a real error.     *
  *                                                                   *
- * This is replaced by a macro from system.h if not HAVE_PATHCONF.   */
+ * This is replaced by a macro from system.h if not HAVE_PATHCONF.   *
+ *
+ * Note that the length of a relative path is compared without first *
+ * prepending the current directory, if pathconf() does not return   *
+ * an error.  This is for consistency with the macro and with older  *
+ * zsh behavior; it may be problematic in the ENOENT/ENOTDIR cases.  */
 
 /**/
 mod_export long
 zpathmax(char *dir)
 {
     long pathmax;
+
+    if (!dir || !*dir)
+	dir = ".";
     errno = 0;
     if ((pathmax = pathconf(dir, _PC_PATH_MAX)) >= 0) {
+	/* This code is redundant if pathconf works correctly, but   *
+	 * some versions of glibc pathconf return a hardwired value. */
 	if (strlen(dir) < pathmax)
 	    return pathmax;
 	else
 	    errno = ENAMETOOLONG;
+    } else if (errno == ENOENT || errno == ENOTDIR) {
+	/* Work backward to find a directory, until we run out of path. */
+	char *tail = strrchr(dir, '/');
+	while (tail > dir && tail[-1] == '/')
+	    --tail;
+	if (tail > dir) {
+	    *tail = 0;
+	    pathmax = zpathmax(dir);
+	    *tail = '/';
+	    if (pathmax > 0) {
+		if (strlen(dir) < pathmax)
+		    return pathmax;
+		else
+		    errno = ENAMETOOLONG;
+	    }
+	}
+	/* else                                                          *
+	 * Either we're at the root (tail == dir) or we're on the first  *
+	 * component of a relative path (tail == NULL).  Either way we   *
+	 * have nothing to do here, the error from pathconf() is real.   *
+	 * Perhaps our current working directory has been removed?       */
     }
     if (errno)
 	return -1;
@@ -141,19 +172,6 @@ zpathmax(char *dir)
 }
 #endif
 
-/**/
-mod_export char *
-zrealpath(const char *path, char *resolved_path)
-{
-#ifdef HAVE_REALPATH
-    return realpath(path, resolved_path);
-#else /* the following block should be replaced with a realpath() equiv. */
-    long pathmax;
-
-    if ((pathmax = zpathmax(path)) > 0)
-	return strncpy(resolved_path, path, pathmax);
-#endif
-}
 
 /**/
 mod_export char *

configure.in

@@ -864,7 +864,7 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(strftime difftime gettimeofday \
 	       signgam \
 	       putenv getenv \
 	       brk sbrk \
-	       pathconf realpath)
+	       pathconf)
 AC_FUNC_STRCOLL
 
 if test $ac_cv_func_setpgrp = yes; then