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mv: don't use syscall() to call renameat2()

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From: Ross Burton <ross <at> burtonini.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org, clint <at> debian.org
Subject: Don't use syscall() to call renameat2()
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:38:25 +0000

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mv.c uses gnulib/renameat2.c to call renameat2(), which if the glibc
wrapper isn't available will just invoke syscall(SYS_renameat2). This may
seem like a good idea but considering a number of major distributions use
LD_PRELOAD to build as a pretend root user[1] these mv calls won't be
intercepted, and building will break in strange and interesting ways (such
as binaries not being owned by root:root anymore).  Please consider
changing renameat2.c so that it doesn't hit syscall() if the wrapper isn't
available.

Ross

[1] Debian and derivatives using fakeroot, OpenEmbedded derivatives using
pseudo, etc.

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