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Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:14:39 -0400
From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@...too.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Michael Gilbert (floppym)" <floppym@...too.org>
Subject: faccessat behavior on old kernels (<5.8)
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I received a bug report on Gentoo Linux.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/908765
There appears to be a difference in behavior between musl and glibc
when running on Linux kernels that lack support for the faccessat2
system call.
On glibc, the following call returns 0. On musl, it returns -1 and
sets errno to EINVAL.
faccessat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/null", F_OK, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW);
On older kernels, the underlying faccessat2 syscall returns -1 / ENOSYS.
glibc follows that up with an fstatat64 with equivalent arguments.
musl immediately fails with -1 / EINVAL.
Relevant code:
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/faccessat.c;h=0ccbd778b5f4d61f9121b6aeb59782c21ae647a0;hb=a704fd9a133bfb10510e18702f48a6a9c88dbbd5#l36
https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/unistd/faccessat.c?h=v1.2.4#n34
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