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-rw-r--r--changes/bug53554
-rw-r--r--src/common/compat.c43
2 files changed, 43 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/changes/bug5355 b/changes/bug5355
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f850fe1f1d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug5355
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+ o Major bugfixes:
+ - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX. Fixes
+ bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
+
diff --git a/src/common/compat.c b/src/common/compat.c
index d40e5036ff..0021f9290c 100644
--- a/src/common/compat.c
+++ b/src/common/compat.c
@@ -1694,6 +1694,39 @@ get_parent_directory(char *fname)
return -1;
}
+#ifndef _WIN32
+/** Return a newly allocated string containing the output of getcwd(). Return
+ * NULL on failure. (We can't just use getcwd() into a PATH_MAX buffer, since
+ * Hurd hasn't got a PATH_MAX.)
+ */
+static char *
+alloc_getcwd(void)
+{
+ int saved_errno = errno;
+/* We use this as a starting path length. Not too large seems sane. */
+#define START_PATH_LENGTH 128
+/* Nobody has a maxpath longer than this, as far as I know. And if they
+ * do, they shouldn't. */
+#define MAX_SANE_PATH_LENGTH 4096
+ size_t path_length = START_PATH_LENGTH;
+ char *path = tor_malloc(path_length);
+
+ errno = 0;
+ while (getcwd(path, path_length) == NULL) {
+ if (errno == ERANGE && path_length < MAX_SANE_PATH_LENGTH) {
+ path_length*=2;
+ path = tor_realloc(path, path_length);
+ } else {
+ tor_free(path);
+ path = NULL;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ errno = saved_errno;
+ return path;
+}
+#endif
+
/** Expand possibly relative path <b>fname</b> to an absolute path.
* Return a newly allocated string, possibly equal to <b>fname</b>. */
char *
@@ -1709,23 +1742,25 @@ make_path_absolute(char *fname)
return absfname;
#else
- char path[PATH_MAX+1];
- char *absfname = NULL;
+ char *absfname = NULL, *path = NULL;
tor_assert(fname);
if (fname[0] == '/') {
absfname = tor_strdup(fname);
} else {
- if (getcwd(path, PATH_MAX) != NULL) {
+ path = alloc_getcwd();
+ if (path) {
tor_asprintf(&absfname, "%s/%s", path, fname);
+ tor_free(path);
} else {
/* If getcwd failed, the best we can do here is keep using the
* relative path. (Perhaps / isn't readable by this UID/GID.) */
+ log_warn(LD_GENERAL, "Unable to find current working directory: %s",
+ strerror(errno));
absfname = tor_strdup(fname);
}
}
-
return absfname;
#endif
}