[CFT] Fix DEVFS aliases in subdirectories.

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 11:14:19 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:09:40AM +0300, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 2011-06-10, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> > The aliased devs are far from the root and so must have "../" entries
> > added in order to function correctly.  I considered making the symlink
> > paths absolute, but that complicates jail handling.
Alternatively, you might change devfs_readlink, prepending the absolute
symlinks with the statfs.f_mntonname. This indeed would have to consider
the case of a jailed process. No, I am not requesting this.

> > 
> > Are there any objections to the attached change?
> 
> > @@ -584,14 +584,43 @@
> >  
> >  		de = devfs_newdirent(s, q - s);
> >  		if (cdp->cdp_c.si_flags & SI_ALIAS) {
> > +			char *slash;
> > +			int depth;
> > +			int namelen;
> > +			int buflen;
> > +			int i;
> 
> style(9) discourages putting declarations inside blocks. Please consider
> putting symlink name generation to its own helper function.
> devfs_populate_loop() has already become too large.
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