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Re: [patch] Avoid race in zf_mkdir
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- From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [patch] Avoid race in zf_mkdir
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 22:35:46 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 10:25 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Er, sorry, this doesn't actually avoid the race, it just prevents the error message from being shown by whichever shell loses the race.
I think this is the expected behavior. It's prescribed by POSIX for mkdir.
> ISometimes you might want to know that the directory was NOT created BY the current shell?
In this case you would invoke zf_mkdir without -p.
> In neither variation are we checking that the existing directory actually has the requested mode.
POSIX says this is how it should be.
Roman.
P.S.
The patch is incorrect for a different reason. If `zf_mkdir -p foo` is
racing with another process that's doing `mkdir foo && rmdir foo`, the
zf_mkdir call must never fail but with this patch it can fail.
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