From: Jon Trulson <jon@radscan.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 17:36:03 +0000 (-0600)
Subject: libtt: Avoid an infinite loop in ttsession (tooltalk daemon) when /etc/mtab is a... 
X-Git-Tag: 2.2.0b~93
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b49872206bfbee7207655b03fcfe72511d25f64a;p=oweals%2Fcde.git

libtt: Avoid an infinite loop in ttsession (tooltalk daemon) when /etc/mtab is a symlink, using lstat instead of stat.

Patch from Frederic Koehler <f.koehler427@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/cde/lib/tt/lib/util/tt_file_system.C b/cde/lib/tt/lib/util/tt_file_system.C
index 8d98ff97..ef96dc3f 100644
--- a/cde/lib/tt/lib/util/tt_file_system.C
+++ b/cde/lib/tt/lib/util/tt_file_system.C
@@ -427,9 +427,10 @@ updateFileSystemEntries ()
 	pollfd poll_fd;
 	while (mount_table_stat.st_size == 0) {
 		(void)poll (&poll_fd, 0, 100);
-		if (stat(TtMntTab, &mount_table_stat)) {
+		// Must use lstat here; mtab is often a symlink
+		if (lstat(TtMntTab, &mount_table_stat)) {
 			return;
-				}
+		}
 	}
 
 	FILE *mount_table = ttOpenMntTbl(TtMntTab, "r");