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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-07-26 17:23:28 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-08-04 16:27:07 +0200
commit992e8f224b91cacc3d6589bea7882c7ab9c0911b (patch)
tree7b1869a11a353488ba9c9857f57086e4dc7e046b /NEWS
parenteb18df724ba541ac1c7fd5c77d9244fa6bc5cabf (diff)
util-lib: rework /tmp and /var/tmp handling code
Beef up the existing var_tmp() call, rename it to var_tmp_dir() and add a matching tmp_dir() call (the former looks for the place for /var/tmp, the latter for /tmp). Both calls check $TMPDIR, $TEMP, $TMP, following the algorithm Python3 uses. All dirs are validated before use. secure_getenv() is used in order to limite exposure in suid binaries. This also ports a couple of users over to these new APIs. The var_tmp() return parameter is changed from an allocated buffer the caller will own to a const string either pointing into environ[], or into a static const buffer. Given that environ[] is mostly considered constant (and this is exposed in the very well-known getenv() call), this should be OK behaviour and allows us to avoid memory allocations in most cases. Note that $TMPDIR and friends override both /var/tmp and /tmp usage if set.
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