bin/104044: [patch] rc.d/cleartmp works incorrectly

Yar Tikhiy yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Tue Oct 10 10:40:27 UTC 2006


The following reply was made to PR bin/104044; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su>
To: Andrey Simonenko <simon at comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
Cc: Florent Thoumie <flz at xbsd.org>, bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/104044: [patch] rc.d/cleartmp works incorrectly
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:34:43 +0400

 On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:26:38AM +0300, Andrey Simonenko wrote:
 > Another updated version:
 > 
 > 1.	Everything, what belongs to _start method, was moved to
 > 	cleartmp_start().
 
 Thanks!
 
 > 2.	Ignore error code from rm and always run find, that is
 > 	use "rm ... ; find ..." instead of "rm ... && find ...":
 > 	one can create many files with long names and rm will not
 > 	be called because of "Argument list too long" error, so
 > 	find should do all of the work.
 
 By the way, did you consider omitting the first rm at all and just
 using "find ... -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf" ?  The first rm can be
 an optimization as long as we use find with -exec.  OTOH, xargs -0
 would buy us the same performance and robustness without hacks.
 Both find and xargs should be available to cleartmp.  Here's the
 code.  Note "type -d" omitted.
 
 	if checkyesno ${rcvar1}; then
 		# This is not needed with mfs /tmp, but doesn't hurt anything.
 		echo "Clearing /tmp."
 		find -x /tmp/. ! -name . \
 			! \( -name lost+found -type d -user root \) \
 			! \( \( -name quota.user -or -name quota.group \) \
 				-type f -user root \) \
 			-prune -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
 	elif ...
 
 Another thought of mine was that cleartmp wouldn't handle files with
 an immutable flag set.  Fortunately, rm -f appears to take care of
 files with uchg while those with schg on them should be left alone.
 So flags aren't an issue.
 
 -- 
 Yar


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