GNU bug report logs - #27871
26.0.50; Bad handling of unmounted directory

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Reported by: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 21:08:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 27871 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Philipp Stephani <phst <at> google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Treat unreachable current directory as error
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2017 08:49:01 +0000
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Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> schrieb am So., 1. Okt. 2017 um 02:00 Uhr:

> Philipp Stephani wrote:
>
> > +  if (!file_name_absolute_p (dir))
>
> That doesn't look right here, since leading '~' counts as absolute to
> file_name_absolute_p, which is not what is wanted here.
>

That shouldn't matter because getcwd never returns a string starting with ~.


>
> > +      errno = ENOTCONN;
>
> Why ENOTCONN? Shouldn't it be ENOENT? The failure has nothing to do with
> socket
> connections.
>

I think ENOTCONN is the error returned by stat(".") if the current
directory doesn't exist. But I don't care much about the exact error
number, any nonzero value should do the job.


>
> Also, I'd feel a bit better if we apply the workaround only to the
> function that
> has the problem.
>
>
All of the current directory functions exhibit this behavior, including
getwd and getcwd, so you need to make sure they are also covered.
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