Merge branch 'cc/access-on-aix-workaround'

Workaround for standard-compliant but less-than-useful behaviour of
access(2) for the root user.

* cc/access-on-aix-workaround:
  git-compat-util: work around for access(X_OK) under root

2 files changed, 32 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/compat/access.c b/compat/access.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..19fda3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compat/access.c
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#define COMPAT_CODE_ACCESS
+#include "../git-compat-util.h"
+
+/* Do the same thing access(2) does, but use the effective uid,
+ * and don't make the mistake of telling root that any file is
+ * executable.  This version uses stat(2).
+ */
+int git_access(const char *path, int mode)
+{
+	struct stat st;
+
+	/* do not interfere a normal user */
+	if (geteuid())
+		return access(path, mode);
+
+	if (stat(path, &st) < 0)
+		return -1;
+
+	/* Root can read or write any file. */
+	if (!(mode & X_OK))
+		return 0;
+
+	/* Root can execute any file that has any one of the execute
+	 * bits set.
+	 */
+	if (st.st_mode & (S_IXUSR | S_IXGRP | S_IXOTH))
+		return 0;
+
+	errno = EACCES;
+	return -1;
+}
diff --git a/compat/fileno.c b/compat/fileno.c
index 7b105f4..8e80ef3 100644
--- a/compat/fileno.c
+++ b/compat/fileno.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#define COMPAT_CODE
+#define COMPAT_CODE_FILENO
 #include "../git-compat-util.h"
 
 int git_fileno(FILE *stream)