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Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/readonly-area.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/readonly-area.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/readonly-area.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/readonly-area.c index ce5321bcef..69e926a7a1 100644 --- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/readonly-area.c +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/readonly-area.c @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +/* Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. */ +#include <errno.h> #include <stdint.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdio_ext.h> @@ -33,7 +34,19 @@ __readonly_area (const char *ptr, size_t size) FILE *fp = fopen ("/proc/self/maps", "rc"); if (fp == NULL) - return -1; + { + /* It is the system administrator's choice to not have /proc + available to this process (e.g., because it runs in a chroot + environment. Don't fail in this case. */ + if (errno == ENOENT + /* The kernel has a bug in that a process is denied access + to the /proc filesystem if it is set[ug]id. There has + been no willingness to change this in the kernel so + far. */ + || errno == EACCES) + return 1; + return -1; + } /* We need no locking. */ __fsetlocking (fp, FSETLOCKING_BYCALLER); |