Fixed version of the patch - Garo (conky developer) noticed that temporary file is neved deleted, resulting in filling the hard drive.
Patch v2 is attached. -- Vasiliy
commit 9370e9ffefc5decb7538585f973c717425e60957 Author: Vasiliy Kulikov <sego...@gmail.com> Date: Fri Feb 11 20:19:36 2011 +0300 Fixed race between calls to stat() and fopen(). diff --git a/src/eve.cc b/src/eve.cc index 187a5f4..589544a 100644 --- a/src/eve.cc +++ b/src/eve.cc @@ -254,19 +254,6 @@ static char *formatTime(struct tm *ends) } } -static int file_exists(const char *filename) -{ - struct stat fi; - - if ((stat(filename, &fi)) == 0) { - if (fi.st_size > 0) - return 1; - else - return 0; - } else - return 0; -} - static void writeSkilltree(char *content, const char *filename) { FILE *fp = fopen(filename, "w"); @@ -283,11 +270,9 @@ static char *getSkillname(const char *file, int skillid) xmlDocPtr doc = 0; xmlNodePtr root = 0; - if (!file_exists(file)) { - skilltree = getXmlFromAPI(NULL, NULL, NULL, EVEURL_SKILLTREE); - writeSkilltree(skilltree, file); - free(skilltree); - } + skilltree = getXmlFromAPI(NULL, NULL, NULL, EVEURL_SKILLTREE); + writeSkilltree(skilltree, file); + free(skilltree); doc = xmlReadFile(file, NULL, 0); if (!doc) @@ -340,7 +325,7 @@ static char *getSkillname(const char *file, int skillid) static char *eve(char *userid, char *apikey, char *charid) { Character *chr = NULL; - const char *skillfile = "/tmp/.cesf"; + char skillfile[] = "/tmp/.cesfXXXXXX"; int i = 0; char *output = 0; char *timel = 0; @@ -348,6 +333,7 @@ static char *eve(char *userid, char *apikey, char *charid) char *content = 0; time_t now = 0; char *error = 0; + int tmp_fd, old_umask; for (i = 0; i < MAXCHARS; i++) { @@ -400,7 +386,16 @@ static char *eve(char *userid, char *apikey, char *charid) output = (char *)malloc(200 * sizeof(char)); timel = formatTime(&chr->ends); + old_umask = umask(0066); + tmp_fd = mkstemp(skillfile); + umask(old_umask); + if (tmp_fd == -1) { + error = strdup("Cannot create temporary file"); + return error; + } + close(tmp_fd); skill = getSkillname(skillfile, chr->skill); + unlink(skillfile); chr->skillname = strdup(skill);