Bug 227168

Summary: pwd fails to traverse unreadable directory
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Fixed In Version: 6.9-2.fc7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Dmitry V. Levin 2007-02-02 21:35:19 UTC
Description of problem:
pwd and readlink (and probably others) fail to traverse unreadable directory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.5-10.fc6
coreutils-5.97-12.3.fc6

Steps to Reproduce:
cd $TMPDIR && mkdir dir1 && cd dir1 && mkdir dir2 && cd dir2 && chmod a=x .. && { /bin/pwd; readlink -ev .; }

Actual results:
/bin/pwd: cannot open directory `..': Permission denied
readlink: .: Permission denied

Expected results:
$TMPDIR/dir1/dir2
$TMPDIR/dir1/dir2

Additional info:

$ strace -qe lstat,openat pwd  
lstat(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=40, ...}) = 0
lstat("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0755, st_size=460, ...}) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "..", O_RDONLY)        = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
lstat("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0755, st_size=460, ...}) = 0
pwd: cannot open directory `..': Permission denied

$ strace -qe lstat,openat readlink -e .
lstat(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=40, ...}) = 0
lstat("/", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISVTX|0755, st_size=460, ...}) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "..", O_RDONLY)        = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

Comment 1 Jim Meyering 2007-02-03 00:38:05 UTC
Thanks again.
I've just fixed that upstream in gnulib:
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs/9033

Comment 2 Dmitry V. Levin 2007-02-03 11:36:17 UTC
The fix works, thanks.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2007-06-07 13:02:48 UTC
*** Bug 243120 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***