[bug #48437] diskfs_S_file_set_translator shortcutting "/hurd/fifo" to S_IFIFO discards options

[Kalle Olavi Niemitalo]

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                 Summary: diskfs_S_file_set_translator shortcutting
"/hurd/fifo" to S_IFIFO discards options
                 Project: The GNU Hurd
            Submitted by: kon
            Submitted on: Thu Jul  7 12:31:28 2016
                Category: Hurd Servers
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Reproducibility: Every Time
              Size (loc): None
         Planned Release: None
                  Effort: 0.00
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Details:

Using hurd 1:0.8.git20160522-4 from Debian:


$ ls -ld hop
ls: cannot access 'hop': No such file or directory
$ touch hop
$ settrans hop /hurd/fifo --multiple-readers
$ showtrans hop
/hurd/fifo


The output from showtrans should have been "/hurd/fifo --multiple-readers".
This happens on ext2fs and tmpfs.

ext2fs uses libdiskfs/file-set-trans.c, which recognizes "/hurd/fifo" and
converts it to S_IFIFO, but ignores the arguments.  In contrast, if it
converts "/hurd/symlink" to S_IFLNK, it saves the first argument of the
translator as the target of the symlink (and ignores any remaining arguments).
 I think it should check that it understood everything that was in the
arguments, and if not, save the arguments unchanged as if it hadn't recognized
the translator.




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