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Support linking of files opened with O_TMPFILE

Feature #13743: Support linking of files opened with O_TMPFILE

Added by Glass_saga (Masaki Matsushita) over 8 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
Glass_saga (Masaki Matsushita)
Target version:
2.5
[ruby-core:82031]

Description

This patch enables linking of files opened with O_TMPFILE into file system.
Users can make a temporary file persistent as named file.

File.open(".", IO::WRONLY|IO::TMPFILE) do |f|
  f.write("content")
  f.chmod(0600)
  File.link(f, "file_name") # make temporary file persistent
end

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patch.diff (2.44 KB) patch.diff Glass_saga (Masaki Matsushita), 07/13/2017 11:15 AM

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 8 years ago Actions
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 #1 [ruby-core:82032]

Extension of File.link, but not File#link?

Updated by normalperson (Eric Wong) over 8 years ago Actions
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 #2 [ruby-core:82037]

wrote:

Feature #13743: Support linking of files opened with O_TMPFILE
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13743

I like this feature.

patch.diff (2.44 KB)

+    if (!NIL_P(tmp) && from_fptr && from_fptr->fd >= 0) { /* when 'from' is an IO and opened */
+	char from_path[PATH_MAX];
+
+	rb_io_flush(from);
+	FilePathValue(to);
+	to = rb_str_encode_ospath(to);
+	snprintf(from_path, PATH_MAX,  "/proc/self/fd/%d", from_fptr->fd);

However, PATH_MAX (4096 on Linux) is excessive use of stack.
Since fd is an int, we can safely set a smaller size.

Also, I'm not sure why rb_io_flush needs to be called, here.

Thanks.

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) over 8 years ago Actions
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 #3 [ruby-core:82041]

normalperson (Eric Wong) wrote:

However, PATH_MAX (4096 on Linux) is excessive use of stack.
Since fd is an int, we can safely set a smaller size.

static const char self_fd[] = "/proc/self/fd/%d";
char from_path[sizeof(self_fd) - 2 + DECIMAL_SIZE_OF_BITS(sizeof(int))];

Updated by akr (Akira Tanaka) over 8 years ago Actions
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 #4 [ruby-core:82047]

I feel this is too Linux and environment specific.
For example, it depends /proc/fd.

I think that it is better to provide linkat(2) directly.
(Extend File.link or add File.linkat.)

Updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) over 8 years ago Actions
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 #5 [ruby-core:82048]

  • Status changed from Open to Rejected

This API is pretty simple but only works on Linux. I am not positive to add platform-specific features to the language core. I'd rather recommend considering making it a gem.

Matz.

Updated by Glass_saga (Masaki Matsushita) over 7 years ago Actions
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 #6

  • Related to Feature #4592: Tempfileを直接保存したい added

Updated by Glass_saga (Masaki Matsushita) over 7 years ago Actions
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 #7

  • Related to deleted (Feature #4592: Tempfileを直接保存したい)
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