Systems like FreeBSD's Capsicum and Nuxi CloudABI apply the concept of
capability-based security on the way processes can interact with the
filesystem API. It is no longer possible to interact with the VFS
through calls like open(), unlink(), rename(), etc. Instead, processes
are only allowed to interact with files and directories to which they
have been granted access. The *at() functions can be used for this
purpose.
This change adds a new config switch called
_LIBCPP_HAS_NO_GLOBAL_FILESYSTEM_NAMESPACE. If set, all functionality
that requires the global filesystem namespace will be disabled. More
concretely:
- fstream's open() function will be removed.
- cstdio will no longer pull in fopen(), rename(), etc.
- The test suite's get_temp_file_name() will be removed. This will cause
all tests that use the global filesystem namespace to break, but will
at least make all the other tests run (as get_temp_file_name will not
build anyway).
It is important to mention that this change will make fstream rather
useless on those systems for now. Still, I'd rather not have fstream
disabled entirely, as it is of course possible to come up with an
extension for fstream that would allow access to local filesystem
namespaces (e.g., by adding an openat() member function).
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8194
Reviewed by: jroelofs (thanks!)
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/libcxx/trunk@232049 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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