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authorDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2009-09-05 23:37:40 +0200
committerDenys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>2009-09-05 23:37:40 +0200
commitfdf14ae2e653f275c085329b183373e1fb062693 (patch)
treeaf64aedb51e30bda270721bf37729bcb1f4cb567 /libc/misc
parenta76558a92e21643a628c3c6a8cd22816634b1749 (diff)
do not save/restore errno around free() calls
In any non-buggy program free() does not fail. And when it fails in a buggy program, the failure is usually fatal (heap corruption and segfault). Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'libc/misc')
-rw-r--r--libc/misc/dirent/opendir.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/libc/misc/dirent/opendir.c b/libc/misc/dirent/opendir.c
index 70b30658e..672ef15a4 100644
--- a/libc/misc/dirent/opendir.c
+++ b/libc/misc/dirent/opendir.c
@@ -87,16 +87,17 @@ DIR *opendir(const char *name)
fd = open(name, O_RDONLY|O_NDELAY|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC);
if (fd < 0)
return NULL;
-
/* Note: we should check to make sure that between the stat() and open()
* call, 'name' didnt change on us, but that's only if O_DIRECTORY isnt
* defined and since Linux has supported it for like ever, i'm not going
* to worry about it right now (if ever). */
+
if (fstat(fd, &statbuf) < 0) {
- int saved_errno;
- saved_errno = errno;
+ // this close() never fails
+ //int saved_errno;
+ //saved_errno = errno;
close(fd);
- __set_errno(saved_errno);
+ //__set_errno(saved_errno);
return NULL;
}