source: trunk/essentials/app-arch/tar/lib/unlinkdir.c

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1/* unlinkdir.c - determine (and maybe change) whether we can unlink directories
2
3 Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4
5 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
6 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
8 any later version.
9
10 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
13 GNU General Public License for more details.
14
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
17 Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
18
19/* Written by Paul Eggert and Jim Meyering. */
20
21#include <config.h>
22
23#include "unlinkdir.h"
24
25#if HAVE_PRIV_H
26# include <priv.h>
27#endif
28#include <unistd.h>
29
30#if ! UNLINK_CANNOT_UNLINK_DIR
31
32/* Return true if we cannot unlink directories, false if we might be
33 able to unlink directories. If possible, tell the kernel we don't
34 want to be able to unlink directories, so that we can return true. */
35
36bool
37cannot_unlink_dir (void)
38{
39 static bool initialized;
40 static bool cannot;
41
42 if (! initialized)
43 {
44# if defined PRIV_EFFECTIVE && defined PRIV_SYS_LINKDIR
45 /* We might be able to unlink directories if we cannot
46 determine our privileges, or if we have the
47 PRIV_SYS_LINKDIR privilege and cannot delete it. */
48 priv_set_t *pset = priv_allocset ();
49 if (pset)
50 {
51 cannot =
52 (getppriv (PRIV_EFFECTIVE, pset) == 0
53 && (! priv_ismember (pset, PRIV_SYS_LINKDIR)
54 || (priv_delset (pset, PRIV_SYS_LINKDIR) == 0
55 && setppriv (PRIV_SET, PRIV_EFFECTIVE, pset) == 0)));
56 priv_freeset (pset);
57 }
58# else
59 /* In traditional Unix, only root can unlink directories. */
60 cannot = (geteuid () != 0);
61# endif
62 initialized = true;
63 }
64
65 return cannot;
66}
67
68#endif
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