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Don't refuse to start on systems using GNU stow, graft, STORE et al

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There are multiple package management systems out there which implement
packages using symlinks. The recent (otherwise useful) check to ensure that
a re-executed pulseaudio is actually reexecuting itself unfortunately breaks
in the presence of all these packaging systems, because PA_BINARY refers
to its installed location (e.g. /usr/local/bin/pulseaudio), which is a
symlink to the binary (e.g. /usr/local/stow/pulseaudio-0.9.18/bin/pulseaudio),
because /proc/self/exe always contains the canonical path of the executable,
with all symlinks resolved.

(At least one distribution uses a symlink-based packaging system, so
will be forced to apply this locally in any case.)

The fix is simple: canonicalize PA_BINARY before equality-testing. (This
should be completely safe, because the OS does just that when PA_BINARY
is executed.)

The patch is against 0.9.18, but applies without fuzz to current master.
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Nix 2009-09-26 20:18:00 +01:00 • committed by Lennart Poettering
parent faf113d95b
commit eac566226e
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@ -416,23 +416,28 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
if (!getenv("LD_BIND_NOW")) {
char *rp;
char *canonical_rp;
/* We have to execute ourselves, because the libc caches the
* value of $LD_BIND_NOW on initialization. */
pa_set_env("LD_BIND_NOW", "1");
canonical_rp = pa_realpath(PA_BINARY);
if ((rp = pa_readlink("/proc/self/exe"))) {
if (pa_streq(rp, PA_BINARY))
if (pa_streq(rp, canonical_rp))
pa_assert_se(execv(rp, argv) == 0);
else
pa_log_warn("/proc/self/exe does not point to " PA_BINARY ", cannot self execute. Are you playing games?");
pa_log_warn("/proc/self/exe does not point to %s, cannot self execute. Are you playing games?", canonical_rp);
pa_xfree(rp);
} else
pa_log_warn("Couldn't read /proc/self/exe, cannot self execute. Running in a chroot()?");
pa_xfree(canonical_rp);
}
#endif