/* * makedir.c -- make a directory * * $Id$ */ /* * Modified to try recursive create. */ #include #include #include #include extern int errno; int makedir (char *dir) { char path[PATH_MAX]; char* folder_perms_ASCII; int had_an_error = 0; mode_t folder_perms, saved_umask; pid_t pid; register char* c; context_save(); /* save the context file */ fflush(stdout); if (!(folder_perms_ASCII = context_find ("folder-protect"))) folder_perms_ASCII = foldprot; /* defaults to "0700" */ /* Call strtoul() with radix=0, which means it'll determine the base by looking at the first digit. That way it'll know "0700" is an octal constant (and if someone gets wacky and changes the representation to hex it'll still work). */ folder_perms = strtoul(folder_perms_ASCII, NULL, 0); /* Folders have definite desired permissions that are set -- we don't want to interact with the umask. Clear it temporarily. */ saved_umask = umask(0); if (getuid () == geteuid ()) { c = strncpy(path, dir, sizeof(path)); while (!had_an_error && (c = strchr((c + 1), '/')) != NULL) { *c = (char)0; if (access(path, X_OK)) { if (errno != ENOENT){ advise (dir, "unable to create directory"); had_an_error = 1; } /* Create an outer directory. */ if (mkdir(path, folder_perms)) { advise (dir, "unable to create directory"); had_an_error = 1; } } *c = '/'; } if (!had_an_error) { /* Create the innermost nested subdirectory of the path we're being asked to create. */ if (mkdir (dir, folder_perms) == -1) { advise (dir, "unable to create directory"); had_an_error = 1; } } } else { /* Ummm, why do we want to avoid creating directories with the effective user ID? None of the nmh tools are installed such that the effective should be different from the real, and if some parent process made the two be different, I don't see why it should be our job to enforce the real UID. Also, why the heck do we call the mkdir executable rather than the library function in this case?? If we do want to call the mkdir executable, we should at least be giving it -p (and change the single chmod() call below) so it can successfully create nested directories like the above code can. -- Dan Harkless */ switch (pid = vfork()) { case -1: advise ("fork", "unable to"); return 0; case 0: setgid (getgid ()); setuid (getuid ()); execl ("/bin/mkdir", "mkdir", dir, NULL); execl ("/usr/bin/mkdir", "mkdir", dir, NULL); fprintf (stderr, "unable to exec "); perror ("mkdir"); _exit (-1); default: if (pidXwait(pid, "mkdir")) return 0; break; } chmod (dir, folder_perms); } umask(saved_umask); /* put the user's umask back */ if (had_an_error) return 0; /* opposite of UNIX error return convention */ else return 1; }