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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/System/Unix')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/System/Unix/Path.inc | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/System/Unix/Path.inc b/lib/System/Unix/Path.inc index 83885c3..f79b2b2 100644 --- a/lib/System/Unix/Path.inc +++ b/lib/System/Unix/Path.inc @@ -569,6 +569,11 @@ Path::eraseFromDisk(bool remove_contents, std::string *ErrStr) const { if (getFileStatus(Status, ErrStr)) return true; + // Note: this check catches strange situations. In all cases, LLVM should only + // be involved in the creation and deletion of regular files. This check + // ensures that what we're trying to erase is a regular file. It effectively + // prevents LLVM from erasing things like /dev/null, any block special file, + // or other things that aren't "regular" files. if (Status.isFile) { if (unlink(path.c_str()) != 0) return GetErrno(path + ": can't destroy file", ErrStr); |