Make writing files a bit safer

Especially configuration files.
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Přemysl Eric Janouch 2016-01-13 00:19:20 +01:00
parent 9e3cb2b6aa
commit 60dd23ab8f

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@ -3379,11 +3379,11 @@ write_file (const char *filename, const struct str *data, struct error **e)
return false;
}
errno = 0;
fwrite (data->str, data->len, 1, fp);
bool success = !ferror (fp) && !fflush (fp) && !fsync (fileno (fp));
fclose (fp);
if (errno)
if (!success)
{
error_set (e, "writing to `%s' failed: %s", filename, strerror (errno));
return false;
@ -3391,6 +3391,22 @@ write_file (const char *filename, const struct str *data, struct error **e)
return true;
}
/// Wrapper for write_file() that makes sure that the new data has been written
/// to disk in its entirety before overriding the old file
static bool
write_file_safe (const char *filename, const struct str *data, struct error **e)
{
// XXX: ideally we would also open the directory, use *at() versions
// of functions and call fsync() on the directory as appropriate
char *temp = xstrdup_printf ("%s.new", filename);
bool success = write_file (temp, data, e);
if (success && !(success = !rename (temp, filename)))
error_set (e, "could not rename `%s' to `%s': %s",
temp, filename, strerror (errno));
free (temp);
return success;
}
// --- Simple configuration ----------------------------------------------------
// The keys are stripped of surrounding whitespace, the values are not.
@ -3482,7 +3498,7 @@ write_configuration_file (const char *path_hint, const struct str *data,
str_append (&path, "/" PROGRAM_NAME "/" PROGRAM_NAME ".conf");
}
if (!write_file (path.str, data, e))
if (!write_file_safe (path.str, data, e))
{
str_free (&path);
return NULL;