Trusted Solaris support (libgnome's use of mkdir)
- From: Brenden Carter Grace <bcg flipt com>
- To: gnome-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Trusted Solaris support (libgnome's use of mkdir)
- Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 17:49:29 -0500
libgnome uses the failure of mkdir() and the errno of EEXIST to
determine if .gnome2 and .gnome2_private exist. This works on TSOL if
the dir argument of mkdir() is a single level directory. If the first
argument of mkdir() is a multilevel directory (that exists) the
mkdir() fails and errno is set to EINVAL.
HP-UX SecureWare (and presumably other SecureWare systems) do not act
this way (they return EEXIST for ML directories). I hope SELinux and
Trusted BSD follow suit ...
My patch is Trusted Solaris specific, so I haven't included it. A
simple, but unfortunate/wrong, fix is to check for EINVAL along with
EEXIST in libgnome_userdir_setup() (gnome-init.c).
I don't expect Trusted Solaris support to be upstreamed, but this may
be usefull for anyone else implementing GNOME apps on Trusted Solaris.
--
Brenden C Grace
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