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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2003-11-27 08:24:01 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2003-11-27 08:24:01 +0000
commit195f52b5ec2732cd70b0845810c9dc0e068d0641 (patch)
tree404c89534c0cd5b2a68cd537e0ed33f129b7df44
parenta939d0907fbdef8618e17afbdd728bf817235d5a (diff)
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Ensure that we have write permission before overwriting a file.
-rw-r--r--binutils/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--binutils/rename.c16
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog
index e7d5309..208f96e 100644
--- a/binutils/ChangeLog
+++ b/binutils/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-11-27 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
+
+ * rename.c (smart_rename): Make sure that we have write
+ permission on the destination file before renaming.
+
2003-11-26 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
diff --git a/binutils/rename.c b/binutils/rename.c
index 99561c4..398152e 100644
--- a/binutils/rename.c
+++ b/binutils/rename.c
@@ -159,14 +159,18 @@ smart_rename (const char *from, const char *to, int preserve_dates)
if (ret != 0)
{
/* We have to clean up here. */
-
- non_fatal (_("%s: rename: %s"), to, strerror (errno));
+ non_fatal (_("unable to rename '%s' reason: %s"), to, strerror (errno));
unlink (from);
}
#else
/* Use rename only if TO is not a symbolic link and has
- only one hard link. */
- if (! exists || (!S_ISLNK (s.st_mode) && s.st_nlink == 1))
+ only one hard link, and we have permission to write to it. */
+ if (! exists
+ || (!S_ISLNK (s.st_mode)
+ && S_ISREG (s.st_mode)
+ && (s.st_mode & S_IWUSR)
+ && s.st_nlink == 1)
+ )
{
ret = rename (from, to);
if (ret == 0)
@@ -193,7 +197,7 @@ smart_rename (const char *from, const char *to, int preserve_dates)
else
{
/* We have to clean up here. */
- non_fatal (_("%s: rename: %s"), to, strerror (errno));
+ non_fatal (_("unable to rename '%s' reason: %s"), to, strerror (errno));
unlink (from);
}
}
@@ -201,7 +205,7 @@ smart_rename (const char *from, const char *to, int preserve_dates)
{
ret = simple_copy (from, to);
if (ret != 0)
- non_fatal (_("%s: simple_copy: %s"), to, strerror (errno));
+ non_fatal (_("unable to copy file '%s' reason: %s"), to, strerror (errno));
if (preserve_dates)
set_times (to, &s);