Since NUL usually terminates strings in underlying syscalls, allowing
it when converting string arguments is a security risk, especially
when dealing with filenames. For example, a program might reason that
filename like "/root/..\x00/" is a subdirectory or "/root/" and allow
access to it, while underlying syscall will treat "\x00" as an end of
that string and the actual filename will be "/root/..", which might
be unexpected. Returning EINVAL when string arguments have NUL in
them makes sure this attack vector is unusable.
R=golang-dev, r, bradfitz, fullung, rsc, minux.ma
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/6458050
The set of errors forwarded by the os package varied with system and
was therefore non-portable.
Three helpers added for portable error checking: IsExist, IsNotExist, and IsPermission.
One or two more may need to come, but let's keep the set very small to discourage
thinking about errors that way.
R=mikioh.mikioh, gustavo, r, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5672047
Delete O_NDELAY, O_NONBLOCK, O_NOCTTY, O_ASYNC.
Clean up some docs.
Rename ShellExpand -> ExpandEnv.
Make NewFile take a uintptr; change File.Fd to return one.
(for API compatibility between Unix and Windows)
Fixes#2947
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5655045
This reduces the overhead necessary to work with OS-specific
file details, hides the implementation of FileStat, and
preserves the implementation-specific nature of Sys.
Expressions such as:
stat.(*os.FileInfo).Sys.(*syscall.Stat_t).Uid
fi1.(*os.FileStat).SameFile(fi2.(*os.FileStat))
Are now spelled as::
stat.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t).Uid
os.SameFile(fi1, fi2)
R=cw, bradfitz, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5448079
This is not the right fix, but it is what used to happen
before the FileInfo conversion, and it should get the
build working again (at least that part).
TBR=brainman
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5434090
- syscall (not os) now defines the Errno type.
- the low-level assembly functions Syscall, Syscall6, and so on
return Errno, not uintptr
- syscall wrappers all return error, not uintptr.
R=golang-dev, mikioh.mikioh, r, alex.brainman
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5372080
