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1 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 //
3 /// \file       file_io.c
4 /// \brief      File opening, unlinking, and closing
5 //
6 //  Author:     Lasse Collin
7 //
8 //  This file has been put into the public domain.
9 //  You can do whatever you want with this file.
10 //
11 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12 
13 #include "private.h"
14 
15 #include <fcntl.h>
16 
17 #ifdef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
18 #	include <io.h>
19 #else
20 #	include <poll.h>
21 static bool warn_fchown;
22 #endif
23 
24 #if defined(HAVE_FUTIMES) || defined(HAVE_FUTIMESAT) || defined(HAVE_UTIMES)
25 #	include <sys/time.h>
26 #elif defined(HAVE__FUTIME)
27 #	include <sys/utime.h>
28 #elif defined(HAVE_UTIME)
29 #	include <utime.h>
30 #endif
31 
32 #ifdef HAVE_CAPSICUM
33 #	ifdef HAVE_SYS_CAPSICUM_H
34 #		include <sys/capsicum.h>
35 #	else
36 #		include <sys/capability.h>
37 #	endif
38 #endif
39 
40 #include "tuklib_open_stdxxx.h"
41 
42 #ifndef O_BINARY
43 #	define O_BINARY 0
44 #endif
45 
46 #ifndef O_NOCTTY
47 #	define O_NOCTTY 0
48 #endif
49 
50 // Using this macro to silence a warning from gcc -Wlogical-op.
51 #if EAGAIN == EWOULDBLOCK
52 #	define IS_EAGAIN_OR_EWOULDBLOCK(e) ((e) == EAGAIN)
53 #else
54 #	define IS_EAGAIN_OR_EWOULDBLOCK(e) \
55 		((e) == EAGAIN || (e) == EWOULDBLOCK)
56 #endif
57 
58 
59 typedef enum {
60 	IO_WAIT_MORE,    // Reading or writing is possible.
61 	IO_WAIT_ERROR,   // Error or user_abort
62 	IO_WAIT_TIMEOUT, // poll() timed out
63 } io_wait_ret;
64 
65 
66 /// If true, try to create sparse files when decompressing.
67 static bool try_sparse = true;
68 
69 #ifdef ENABLE_SANDBOX
70 /// True if the conditions for sandboxing (described in main()) have been met.
71 static bool sandbox_allowed = false;
72 #endif
73 
74 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
75 /// File status flags of standard input. This is used by io_open_src()
76 /// and io_close_src().
77 static int stdin_flags;
78 static bool restore_stdin_flags = false;
79 
80 /// Original file status flags of standard output. This is used by
81 /// io_open_dest() and io_close_dest() to save and restore the flags.
82 static int stdout_flags;
83 static bool restore_stdout_flags = false;
84 
85 /// Self-pipe used together with the user_abort variable to avoid
86 /// race conditions with signal handling.
87 static int user_abort_pipe[2];
88 #endif
89 
90 
91 static bool io_write_buf(file_pair *pair, const uint8_t *buf, size_t size);
92 
93 
94 extern void
95 io_init(void)
96 {
97 	// Make sure that stdin, stdout, and stderr are connected to
98 	// a valid file descriptor. Exit immediately with exit code ERROR
99 	// if we cannot make the file descriptors valid. Maybe we should
100 	// print an error message, but our stderr could be screwed anyway.
101 	tuklib_open_stdxxx(E_ERROR);
102 
103 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
104 	// If fchown() fails setting the owner, we warn about it only if
105 	// we are root.
106 	warn_fchown = geteuid() == 0;
107 
108 	// Create a pipe for the self-pipe trick.
109 	if (pipe(user_abort_pipe))
110 		message_fatal(_("Error creating a pipe: %s"),
111 				strerror(errno));
112 
113 	// Make both ends of the pipe non-blocking.
114 	for (unsigned i = 0; i < 2; ++i) {
115 		int flags = fcntl(user_abort_pipe[i], F_GETFL);
116 		if (flags == -1 || fcntl(user_abort_pipe[i], F_SETFL,
117 				flags | O_NONBLOCK) == -1)
118 			message_fatal(_("Error creating a pipe: %s"),
119 					strerror(errno));
120 	}
121 #endif
122 
123 #ifdef __DJGPP__
124 	// Avoid doing useless things when statting files.
125 	// This isn't important but doesn't hurt.
126 	_djstat_flags = _STAT_EXEC_EXT | _STAT_EXEC_MAGIC | _STAT_DIRSIZE;
127 #endif
128 
129 	return;
130 }
131 
132 
133 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
134 extern void
135 io_write_to_user_abort_pipe(void)
136 {
137 	// If the write() fails, it's probably due to the pipe being full.
138 	// Failing in that case is fine. If the reason is something else,
139 	// there's not much we can do since this is called in a signal
140 	// handler. So ignore the errors and try to avoid warnings with
141 	// GCC and glibc when _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is used.
142 	uint8_t b = '\0';
143 	const ssize_t ret = write(user_abort_pipe[1], &b, 1);
144 	(void)ret;
145 	return;
146 }
147 #endif
148 
149 
150 extern void
151 io_no_sparse(void)
152 {
153 	try_sparse = false;
154 	return;
155 }
156 
157 
158 #ifdef ENABLE_SANDBOX
159 extern void
160 io_allow_sandbox(void)
161 {
162 	sandbox_allowed = true;
163 	return;
164 }
165 
166 
167 /// Enables operating-system-specific sandbox if it is possible.
168 /// src_fd is the file descriptor of the input file.
169 static void
170 io_sandbox_enter(int src_fd)
171 {
172 	if (!sandbox_allowed) {
173 		// This message is more often annoying than useful so
174 		// it's commented out. It can be useful when developing
175 		// the sandboxing code.
176 		//message(V_DEBUG, _("Sandbox is disabled due "
177 		//		"to incompatible command line arguments"));
178 		return;
179 	}
180 
181 	const char dummy_str[] = "x";
182 
183 	// Try to ensure that both libc and xz locale files have been
184 	// loaded when NLS is enabled.
185 	snprintf(NULL, 0, "%s%s", _(dummy_str), strerror(EINVAL));
186 
187 	// Try to ensure that iconv data files needed for handling multibyte
188 	// characters have been loaded. This is needed at least with glibc.
189 	tuklib_mbstr_width(dummy_str, NULL);
190 
191 #ifdef HAVE_CAPSICUM
192 	// Capsicum needs FreeBSD 10.0 or later.
193 	cap_rights_t rights;
194 
195 	if (cap_enter())
196 		goto error;
197 
198 	if (cap_rights_limit(src_fd, cap_rights_init(&rights,
199 			CAP_EVENT, CAP_FCNTL, CAP_LOOKUP, CAP_READ, CAP_SEEK)))
200 		goto error;
201 
202 	if (src_fd != STDIN_FILENO && cap_rights_limit(
203 			STDIN_FILENO, cap_rights_clear(&rights)))
204 		goto error;
205 
206 	if (cap_rights_limit(STDOUT_FILENO, cap_rights_init(&rights,
207 			CAP_EVENT, CAP_FCNTL, CAP_FSTAT, CAP_LOOKUP,
208 			CAP_WRITE, CAP_SEEK)))
209 		goto error;
210 
211 	if (cap_rights_limit(STDERR_FILENO, cap_rights_init(&rights,
212 			CAP_WRITE)))
213 		goto error;
214 
215 	if (cap_rights_limit(user_abort_pipe[0], cap_rights_init(&rights,
216 			CAP_EVENT)))
217 		goto error;
218 
219 	if (cap_rights_limit(user_abort_pipe[1], cap_rights_init(&rights,
220 			CAP_WRITE)))
221 		goto error;
222 
223 #elif defined(HAVE_PLEDGE)
224 	// pledge() was introduced in OpenBSD 5.9.
225 	//
226 	// main() unconditionally calls pledge() with fairly relaxed
227 	// promises which work in all situations. Here we make the
228 	// sandbox more strict.
229 	if (pledge("stdio", ""))
230 		goto error;
231 
232 	(void)src_fd;
233 
234 #else
235 #	error ENABLE_SANDBOX is defined but no sandboxing method was found.
236 #endif
237 
238 	// This message is annoying in xz -lvv.
239 	//message(V_DEBUG, _("Sandbox was successfully enabled"));
240 	return;
241 
242 error:
243 #ifdef HAVE_CAPSICUM
244 	// If a kernel is configured without capability mode support or
245 	// used in an emulator that does not implement the capability
246 	// system calls, then the Capsicum system calls will fail and set
247 	// errno to ENOSYS. In that case xz will silently run without
248 	// the sandbox.
249 	if (errno == ENOSYS)
250 		return;
251 #endif
252 	message_fatal(_("Failed to enable the sandbox"));
253 }
254 #endif // ENABLE_SANDBOX
255 
256 
257 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
258 /// \brief      Waits for input or output to become available or for a signal
259 ///
260 /// This uses the self-pipe trick to avoid a race condition that can occur
261 /// if a signal is caught after user_abort has been checked but before e.g.
262 /// read() has been called. In that situation read() could block unless
263 /// non-blocking I/O is used. With non-blocking I/O something like select()
264 /// or poll() is needed to avoid a busy-wait loop, and the same race condition
265 /// pops up again. There are pselect() (POSIX-1.2001) and ppoll() (not in
266 /// POSIX) but neither is portable enough in 2013. The self-pipe trick is
267 /// old and very portable.
268 static io_wait_ret
269 io_wait(file_pair *pair, int timeout, bool is_reading)
270 {
271 	struct pollfd pfd[2];
272 
273 	if (is_reading) {
274 		pfd[0].fd = pair->src_fd;
275 		pfd[0].events = POLLIN;
276 	} else {
277 		pfd[0].fd = pair->dest_fd;
278 		pfd[0].events = POLLOUT;
279 	}
280 
281 	pfd[1].fd = user_abort_pipe[0];
282 	pfd[1].events = POLLIN;
283 
284 	while (true) {
285 		const int ret = poll(pfd, 2, timeout);
286 
287 		if (user_abort)
288 			return IO_WAIT_ERROR;
289 
290 		if (ret == -1) {
291 			if (errno == EINTR || errno == EAGAIN)
292 				continue;
293 
294 			message_error(_("%s: poll() failed: %s"),
295 					is_reading ? pair->src_name
296 						: pair->dest_name,
297 					strerror(errno));
298 			return IO_WAIT_ERROR;
299 		}
300 
301 		if (ret == 0)
302 			return IO_WAIT_TIMEOUT;
303 
304 		if (pfd[0].revents != 0)
305 			return IO_WAIT_MORE;
306 	}
307 }
308 #endif
309 
310 
311 /// \brief      Unlink a file
312 ///
313 /// This tries to verify that the file being unlinked really is the file that
314 /// we want to unlink by verifying device and inode numbers. There's still
315 /// a small unavoidable race, but this is much better than nothing (the file
316 /// could have been moved/replaced even hours earlier).
317 static void
318 io_unlink(const char *name, const struct stat *known_st)
319 {
320 #if defined(TUKLIB_DOSLIKE)
321 	// On DOS-like systems, st_ino is meaningless, so don't bother
322 	// testing it. Just silence a compiler warning.
323 	(void)known_st;
324 #else
325 	struct stat new_st;
326 
327 	// If --force was used, use stat() instead of lstat(). This way
328 	// (de)compressing symlinks works correctly. However, it also means
329 	// that xz cannot detect if a regular file foo is renamed to bar
330 	// and then a symlink foo -> bar is created. Because of stat()
331 	// instead of lstat(), xz will think that foo hasn't been replaced
332 	// with another file. Thus, xz will remove foo even though it no
333 	// longer is the same file that xz used when it started compressing.
334 	// Probably it's not too bad though, so this doesn't need a more
335 	// complex fix.
336 	const int stat_ret = opt_force
337 			? stat(name, &new_st) : lstat(name, &new_st);
338 
339 	if (stat_ret
340 #	ifdef __VMS
341 			// st_ino is an array, and we don't want to
342 			// compare st_dev at all.
343 			|| memcmp(&new_st.st_ino, &known_st->st_ino,
344 				sizeof(new_st.st_ino)) != 0
345 #	else
346 			// Typical POSIX-like system
347 			|| new_st.st_dev != known_st->st_dev
348 			|| new_st.st_ino != known_st->st_ino
349 #	endif
350 			)
351 		// TRANSLATORS: When compression or decompression finishes,
352 		// and xz is going to remove the source file, xz first checks
353 		// if the source file still exists, and if it does, does its
354 		// device and inode numbers match what xz saw when it opened
355 		// the source file. If these checks fail, this message is
356 		// shown, %s being the filename, and the file is not deleted.
357 		// The check for device and inode numbers is there, because
358 		// it is possible that the user has put a new file in place
359 		// of the original file, and in that case it obviously
360 		// shouldn't be removed.
361 		message_warning(_("%s: File seems to have been moved, "
362 				"not removing"), name);
363 	else
364 #endif
365 		// There's a race condition between lstat() and unlink()
366 		// but at least we have tried to avoid removing wrong file.
367 		if (unlink(name))
368 			message_warning(_("%s: Cannot remove: %s"),
369 					name, strerror(errno));
370 
371 	return;
372 }
373 
374 
375 /// \brief      Copies owner/group and permissions
376 ///
377 /// \todo       ACL and EA support
378 ///
379 static void
380 io_copy_attrs(const file_pair *pair)
381 {
382 	// Skip chown and chmod on Windows.
383 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
384 	// This function is more tricky than you may think at first.
385 	// Blindly copying permissions may permit users to access the
386 	// destination file who didn't have permission to access the
387 	// source file.
388 
389 	// Try changing the owner of the file. If we aren't root or the owner
390 	// isn't already us, fchown() probably doesn't succeed. We warn
391 	// about failing fchown() only if we are root.
392 	if (fchown(pair->dest_fd, pair->src_st.st_uid, (gid_t)(-1))
393 			&& warn_fchown)
394 		message_warning(_("%s: Cannot set the file owner: %s"),
395 				pair->dest_name, strerror(errno));
396 
397 	mode_t mode;
398 
399 	// With BSD semantics the new dest file may have a group that
400 	// does not belong to the user. If the src file has the same gid
401 	// nothing has to be done. Nevertheless OpenBSD fchown(2) fails
402 	// in this case which seems to be POSIX compliant. As there is
403 	// nothing to do, skip the system call.
404 	if (pair->dest_st.st_gid != pair->src_st.st_gid
405 			&& fchown(pair->dest_fd, (uid_t)(-1),
406 				pair->src_st.st_gid)) {
407 		message_warning(_("%s: Cannot set the file group: %s"),
408 				pair->dest_name, strerror(errno));
409 		// We can still safely copy some additional permissions:
410 		// `group' must be at least as strict as `other' and
411 		// also vice versa.
412 		//
413 		// NOTE: After this, the owner of the source file may
414 		// get additional permissions. This shouldn't be too bad,
415 		// because the owner would have had permission to chmod
416 		// the original file anyway.
417 		mode = ((pair->src_st.st_mode & 0070) >> 3)
418 				& (pair->src_st.st_mode & 0007);
419 		mode = (pair->src_st.st_mode & 0700) | (mode << 3) | mode;
420 	} else {
421 		// Drop the setuid, setgid, and sticky bits.
422 		mode = pair->src_st.st_mode & 0777;
423 	}
424 
425 	if (fchmod(pair->dest_fd, mode))
426 		message_warning(_("%s: Cannot set the file permissions: %s"),
427 				pair->dest_name, strerror(errno));
428 #endif
429 
430 	// Copy the timestamps. We have several possible ways to do this, of
431 	// which some are better in both security and precision.
432 	//
433 	// First, get the nanosecond part of the timestamps. As of writing,
434 	// it's not standardized by POSIX, and there are several names for
435 	// the same thing in struct stat.
436 	long atime_nsec;
437 	long mtime_nsec;
438 
439 #	if defined(HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_ATIM_TV_NSEC)
440 	// GNU and Solaris
441 	atime_nsec = pair->src_st.st_atim.tv_nsec;
442 	mtime_nsec = pair->src_st.st_mtim.tv_nsec;
443 
444 #	elif defined(HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_ATIMESPEC_TV_NSEC)
445 	// BSD
446 	atime_nsec = pair->src_st.st_atimespec.tv_nsec;
447 	mtime_nsec = pair->src_st.st_mtimespec.tv_nsec;
448 
449 #	elif defined(HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_ATIMENSEC)
450 	// GNU and BSD without extensions
451 	atime_nsec = pair->src_st.st_atimensec;
452 	mtime_nsec = pair->src_st.st_mtimensec;
453 
454 #	elif defined(HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_UATIME)
455 	// Tru64
456 	atime_nsec = pair->src_st.st_uatime * 1000;
457 	mtime_nsec = pair->src_st.st_umtime * 1000;
458 
459 #	elif defined(HAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_ATIM_ST__TIM_TV_NSEC)
460 	// UnixWare
461 	atime_nsec = pair->src_st.st_atim.st__tim.tv_nsec;
462 	mtime_nsec = pair->src_st.st_mtim.st__tim.tv_nsec;
463 
464 #	else
465 	// Safe fallback
466 	atime_nsec = 0;
467 	mtime_nsec = 0;
468 #	endif
469 
470 	// Construct a structure to hold the timestamps and call appropriate
471 	// function to set the timestamps.
472 #if defined(HAVE_FUTIMENS)
473 	// Use nanosecond precision.
474 	struct timespec tv[2];
475 	tv[0].tv_sec = pair->src_st.st_atime;
476 	tv[0].tv_nsec = atime_nsec;
477 	tv[1].tv_sec = pair->src_st.st_mtime;
478 	tv[1].tv_nsec = mtime_nsec;
479 
480 	(void)futimens(pair->dest_fd, tv);
481 
482 #elif defined(HAVE_FUTIMES) || defined(HAVE_FUTIMESAT) || defined(HAVE_UTIMES)
483 	// Use microsecond precision.
484 	struct timeval tv[2];
485 	tv[0].tv_sec = pair->src_st.st_atime;
486 	tv[0].tv_usec = atime_nsec / 1000;
487 	tv[1].tv_sec = pair->src_st.st_mtime;
488 	tv[1].tv_usec = mtime_nsec / 1000;
489 
490 #	if defined(HAVE_FUTIMES)
491 	(void)futimes(pair->dest_fd, tv);
492 #	elif defined(HAVE_FUTIMESAT)
493 	(void)futimesat(pair->dest_fd, NULL, tv);
494 #	else
495 	// Argh, no function to use a file descriptor to set the timestamp.
496 	(void)utimes(pair->dest_name, tv);
497 #	endif
498 
499 #elif defined(HAVE__FUTIME)
500 	// Use one-second precision with Windows-specific _futime().
501 	// We could use utime() too except that for some reason the
502 	// timestamp will get reset at close(). With _futime() it works.
503 	// This struct cannot be const as _futime() takes a non-const pointer.
504 	struct _utimbuf buf = {
505 		.actime = pair->src_st.st_atime,
506 		.modtime = pair->src_st.st_mtime,
507 	};
508 
509 	// Avoid warnings.
510 	(void)atime_nsec;
511 	(void)mtime_nsec;
512 
513 	(void)_futime(pair->dest_fd, &buf);
514 
515 #elif defined(HAVE_UTIME)
516 	// Use one-second precision. utime() doesn't support using file
517 	// descriptor either. Some systems have broken utime() prototype
518 	// so don't make this const.
519 	struct utimbuf buf = {
520 		.actime = pair->src_st.st_atime,
521 		.modtime = pair->src_st.st_mtime,
522 	};
523 
524 	// Avoid warnings.
525 	(void)atime_nsec;
526 	(void)mtime_nsec;
527 
528 	(void)utime(pair->dest_name, &buf);
529 #endif
530 
531 	return;
532 }
533 
534 
535 /// Opens the source file. Returns false on success, true on error.
536 static bool
537 io_open_src_real(file_pair *pair)
538 {
539 	// There's nothing to open when reading from stdin.
540 	if (pair->src_name == stdin_filename) {
541 		pair->src_fd = STDIN_FILENO;
542 #ifdef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
543 		setmode(STDIN_FILENO, O_BINARY);
544 #else
545 		// Try to set stdin to non-blocking mode. It won't work
546 		// e.g. on OpenBSD if stdout is e.g. /dev/null. In such
547 		// case we proceed as if stdin were non-blocking anyway
548 		// (in case of /dev/null it will be in practice). The
549 		// same applies to stdout in io_open_dest_real().
550 		stdin_flags = fcntl(STDIN_FILENO, F_GETFL);
551 		if (stdin_flags == -1) {
552 			message_error(_("Error getting the file status flags "
553 					"from standard input: %s"),
554 					strerror(errno));
555 			return true;
556 		}
557 
558 		if ((stdin_flags & O_NONBLOCK) == 0
559 				&& fcntl(STDIN_FILENO, F_SETFL,
560 					stdin_flags | O_NONBLOCK) != -1)
561 			restore_stdin_flags = true;
562 #endif
563 #ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
564 		// It will fail if stdin is a pipe and that's fine.
565 		(void)posix_fadvise(STDIN_FILENO, 0, 0,
566 				opt_mode == MODE_LIST
567 					? POSIX_FADV_RANDOM
568 					: POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL);
569 #endif
570 		return false;
571 	}
572 
573 	// Symlinks are not followed unless writing to stdout or --force
574 	// or --keep was used.
575 	const bool follow_symlinks
576 			= opt_stdout || opt_force || opt_keep_original;
577 
578 	// We accept only regular files if we are writing the output
579 	// to disk too. bzip2 allows overriding this with --force but
580 	// gzip and xz don't.
581 	const bool reg_files_only = !opt_stdout;
582 
583 	// Flags for open()
584 	int flags = O_RDONLY | O_BINARY | O_NOCTTY;
585 
586 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
587 	// Use non-blocking I/O:
588 	//   - It prevents blocking when opening FIFOs and some other
589 	//     special files, which is good if we want to accept only
590 	//     regular files.
591 	//   - It can help avoiding some race conditions with signal handling.
592 	flags |= O_NONBLOCK;
593 #endif
594 
595 #if defined(O_NOFOLLOW)
596 	if (!follow_symlinks)
597 		flags |= O_NOFOLLOW;
598 #elif !defined(TUKLIB_DOSLIKE)
599 	// Some POSIX-like systems lack O_NOFOLLOW (it's not required
600 	// by POSIX). Check for symlinks with a separate lstat() on
601 	// these systems.
602 	if (!follow_symlinks) {
603 		struct stat st;
604 		if (lstat(pair->src_name, &st)) {
605 			message_error(_("%s: %s"), pair->src_name,
606 					strerror(errno));
607 			return true;
608 
609 		} else if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
610 			message_warning(_("%s: Is a symbolic link, "
611 					"skipping"), pair->src_name);
612 			return true;
613 		}
614 	}
615 #else
616 	// Avoid warnings.
617 	(void)follow_symlinks;
618 #endif
619 
620 	// Try to open the file. Signals have been blocked so EINTR shouldn't
621 	// be possible.
622 	pair->src_fd = open(pair->src_name, flags);
623 
624 	if (pair->src_fd == -1) {
625 		// Signals (that have a signal handler) have been blocked.
626 		assert(errno != EINTR);
627 
628 #ifdef O_NOFOLLOW
629 		// Give an understandable error message if the reason
630 		// for failing was that the file was a symbolic link.
631 		//
632 		// Note that at least Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Darwin
633 		// use ELOOP to indicate that O_NOFOLLOW was the reason
634 		// that open() failed. Because there may be
635 		// directories in the pathname, ELOOP may occur also
636 		// because of a symlink loop in the directory part.
637 		// So ELOOP doesn't tell us what actually went wrong,
638 		// and this stupidity went into POSIX-1.2008 too.
639 		//
640 		// FreeBSD associates EMLINK with O_NOFOLLOW and
641 		// Tru64 uses ENOTSUP. We use these directly here
642 		// and skip the lstat() call and the associated race.
643 		// I want to hear if there are other kernels that
644 		// fail with something else than ELOOP with O_NOFOLLOW.
645 		bool was_symlink = false;
646 
647 #	if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__DragonFly__)
648 		if (errno == EMLINK)
649 			was_symlink = true;
650 
651 #	elif defined(__digital__) && defined(__unix__)
652 		if (errno == ENOTSUP)
653 			was_symlink = true;
654 
655 #	elif defined(__NetBSD__)
656 		if (errno == EFTYPE)
657 			was_symlink = true;
658 
659 #	else
660 		if (errno == ELOOP && !follow_symlinks) {
661 			const int saved_errno = errno;
662 			struct stat st;
663 			if (lstat(pair->src_name, &st) == 0
664 					&& S_ISLNK(st.st_mode))
665 				was_symlink = true;
666 
667 			errno = saved_errno;
668 		}
669 #	endif
670 
671 		if (was_symlink)
672 			message_warning(_("%s: Is a symbolic link, "
673 					"skipping"), pair->src_name);
674 		else
675 #endif
676 			// Something else than O_NOFOLLOW failing
677 			// (assuming that the race conditions didn't
678 			// confuse us).
679 			message_error(_("%s: %s"), pair->src_name,
680 					strerror(errno));
681 
682 		return true;
683 	}
684 
685 	// Stat the source file. We need the result also when we copy
686 	// the permissions, and when unlinking.
687 	//
688 	// NOTE: Use stat() instead of fstat() with DJGPP, because
689 	// then we have a better chance to get st_ino value that can
690 	// be used in io_open_dest_real() to prevent overwriting the
691 	// source file.
692 #ifdef __DJGPP__
693 	if (stat(pair->src_name, &pair->src_st))
694 		goto error_msg;
695 #else
696 	if (fstat(pair->src_fd, &pair->src_st))
697 		goto error_msg;
698 #endif
699 
700 	if (S_ISDIR(pair->src_st.st_mode)) {
701 		message_warning(_("%s: Is a directory, skipping"),
702 				pair->src_name);
703 		goto error;
704 	}
705 
706 	if (reg_files_only && !S_ISREG(pair->src_st.st_mode)) {
707 		message_warning(_("%s: Not a regular file, skipping"),
708 				pair->src_name);
709 		goto error;
710 	}
711 
712 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
713 	if (reg_files_only && !opt_force && !opt_keep_original) {
714 		if (pair->src_st.st_mode & (S_ISUID | S_ISGID)) {
715 			// gzip rejects setuid and setgid files even
716 			// when --force was used. bzip2 doesn't check
717 			// for them, but calls fchown() after fchmod(),
718 			// and many systems automatically drop setuid
719 			// and setgid bits there.
720 			//
721 			// We accept setuid and setgid files if
722 			// --force or --keep was used. We drop these bits
723 			// explicitly in io_copy_attr().
724 			message_warning(_("%s: File has setuid or "
725 					"setgid bit set, skipping"),
726 					pair->src_name);
727 			goto error;
728 		}
729 
730 		if (pair->src_st.st_mode & S_ISVTX) {
731 			message_warning(_("%s: File has sticky bit "
732 					"set, skipping"),
733 					pair->src_name);
734 			goto error;
735 		}
736 
737 		if (pair->src_st.st_nlink > 1) {
738 			message_warning(_("%s: Input file has more "
739 					"than one hard link, "
740 					"skipping"), pair->src_name);
741 			goto error;
742 		}
743 	}
744 
745 	// If it is something else than a regular file, wait until
746 	// there is input available. This way reading from FIFOs
747 	// will work when open() is used with O_NONBLOCK.
748 	if (!S_ISREG(pair->src_st.st_mode)) {
749 		signals_unblock();
750 		const io_wait_ret ret = io_wait(pair, -1, true);
751 		signals_block();
752 
753 		if (ret != IO_WAIT_MORE)
754 			goto error;
755 	}
756 #endif
757 
758 #ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FADVISE
759 	// It will fail with some special files like FIFOs but that is fine.
760 	(void)posix_fadvise(pair->src_fd, 0, 0,
761 			opt_mode == MODE_LIST
762 				? POSIX_FADV_RANDOM
763 				: POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL);
764 #endif
765 
766 	return false;
767 
768 error_msg:
769 	message_error(_("%s: %s"), pair->src_name, strerror(errno));
770 error:
771 	(void)close(pair->src_fd);
772 	return true;
773 }
774 
775 
776 extern file_pair *
777 io_open_src(const char *src_name)
778 {
779 	if (src_name[0] == '\0') {
780 		message_error(_("Empty filename, skipping"));
781 		return NULL;
782 	}
783 
784 	// Since we have only one file open at a time, we can use
785 	// a statically allocated structure.
786 	static file_pair pair;
787 
788 	// This implicitly also initializes src_st.st_size to zero
789 	// which is expected to be <= 0 by default. fstat() isn't
790 	// called when reading from standard input but src_st.st_size
791 	// is still read.
792 	pair = (file_pair){
793 		.src_name = src_name,
794 		.dest_name = NULL,
795 		.src_fd = -1,
796 		.dest_fd = -1,
797 		.src_eof = false,
798 		.src_has_seen_input = false,
799 		.flush_needed = false,
800 		.dest_try_sparse = false,
801 		.dest_pending_sparse = 0,
802 	};
803 
804 	// Block the signals, for which we have a custom signal handler, so
805 	// that we don't need to worry about EINTR.
806 	signals_block();
807 	const bool error = io_open_src_real(&pair);
808 	signals_unblock();
809 
810 #ifdef ENABLE_SANDBOX
811 	if (!error)
812 		io_sandbox_enter(pair.src_fd);
813 #endif
814 
815 	return error ? NULL : &pair;
816 }
817 
818 
819 /// \brief      Closes source file of the file_pair structure
820 ///
821 /// \param      pair    File whose src_fd should be closed
822 /// \param      success If true, the file will be removed from the disk if
823 ///                     closing succeeds and --keep hasn't been used.
824 static void
825 io_close_src(file_pair *pair, bool success)
826 {
827 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
828 	if (restore_stdin_flags) {
829 		assert(pair->src_fd == STDIN_FILENO);
830 
831 		restore_stdin_flags = false;
832 
833 		if (fcntl(STDIN_FILENO, F_SETFL, stdin_flags) == -1)
834 			message_error(_("Error restoring the status flags "
835 					"to standard input: %s"),
836 					strerror(errno));
837 	}
838 #endif
839 
840 	if (pair->src_fd != STDIN_FILENO && pair->src_fd != -1) {
841 		// Close the file before possibly unlinking it. On DOS-like
842 		// systems this is always required since unlinking will fail
843 		// if the file is open. On POSIX systems it usually works
844 		// to unlink open files, but in some cases it doesn't and
845 		// one gets EBUSY in errno.
846 		//
847 		// xz 5.2.2 and older unlinked the file before closing it
848 		// (except on DOS-like systems). The old code didn't handle
849 		// EBUSY and could fail e.g. on some CIFS shares. The
850 		// advantage of unlinking before closing is negligible
851 		// (avoids a race between close() and stat()/lstat() and
852 		// unlink()), so let's keep this simple.
853 		(void)close(pair->src_fd);
854 
855 		if (success && !opt_keep_original)
856 			io_unlink(pair->src_name, &pair->src_st);
857 	}
858 
859 	return;
860 }
861 
862 
863 static bool
864 io_open_dest_real(file_pair *pair)
865 {
866 	if (opt_stdout || pair->src_fd == STDIN_FILENO) {
867 		// We don't modify or free() this.
868 		pair->dest_name = (char *)"(stdout)";
869 		pair->dest_fd = STDOUT_FILENO;
870 #ifdef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
871 		setmode(STDOUT_FILENO, O_BINARY);
872 #else
873 		// Try to set O_NONBLOCK if it isn't already set.
874 		// If it fails, we assume that stdout is non-blocking
875 		// in practice. See the comments in io_open_src_real()
876 		// for similar situation with stdin.
877 		//
878 		// NOTE: O_APPEND may be unset later in this function
879 		// and it relies on stdout_flags being set here.
880 		stdout_flags = fcntl(STDOUT_FILENO, F_GETFL);
881 		if (stdout_flags == -1) {
882 			message_error(_("Error getting the file status flags "
883 					"from standard output: %s"),
884 					strerror(errno));
885 			return true;
886 		}
887 
888 		if ((stdout_flags & O_NONBLOCK) == 0
889 				&& fcntl(STDOUT_FILENO, F_SETFL,
890 					stdout_flags | O_NONBLOCK) != -1)
891 				restore_stdout_flags = true;
892 #endif
893 	} else {
894 		pair->dest_name = suffix_get_dest_name(pair->src_name);
895 		if (pair->dest_name == NULL)
896 			return true;
897 
898 #ifdef __DJGPP__
899 		struct stat st;
900 		if (stat(pair->dest_name, &st) == 0) {
901 			// Check that it isn't a special file like "prn".
902 			if (st.st_dev == -1) {
903 				message_error("%s: Refusing to write to "
904 						"a DOS special file",
905 						pair->dest_name);
906 				free(pair->dest_name);
907 				return true;
908 			}
909 
910 			// Check that we aren't overwriting the source file.
911 			if (st.st_dev == pair->src_st.st_dev
912 					&& st.st_ino == pair->src_st.st_ino) {
913 				message_error("%s: Output file is the same "
914 						"as the input file",
915 						pair->dest_name);
916 				free(pair->dest_name);
917 				return true;
918 			}
919 		}
920 #endif
921 
922 		// If --force was used, unlink the target file first.
923 		if (opt_force && unlink(pair->dest_name) && errno != ENOENT) {
924 			message_error(_("%s: Cannot remove: %s"),
925 					pair->dest_name, strerror(errno));
926 			free(pair->dest_name);
927 			return true;
928 		}
929 
930 		// Open the file.
931 		int flags = O_WRONLY | O_BINARY | O_NOCTTY
932 				| O_CREAT | O_EXCL;
933 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
934 		flags |= O_NONBLOCK;
935 #endif
936 		const mode_t mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
937 		pair->dest_fd = open(pair->dest_name, flags, mode);
938 
939 		if (pair->dest_fd == -1) {
940 			message_error(_("%s: %s"), pair->dest_name,
941 					strerror(errno));
942 			free(pair->dest_name);
943 			return true;
944 		}
945 	}
946 
947 	if (fstat(pair->dest_fd, &pair->dest_st)) {
948 		// If fstat() really fails, we have a safe fallback here.
949 #if defined(__VMS)
950 		pair->dest_st.st_ino[0] = 0;
951 		pair->dest_st.st_ino[1] = 0;
952 		pair->dest_st.st_ino[2] = 0;
953 #else
954 		pair->dest_st.st_dev = 0;
955 		pair->dest_st.st_ino = 0;
956 #endif
957 	}
958 #if defined(TUKLIB_DOSLIKE) && !defined(__DJGPP__)
959 	// Check that the output file is a regular file. We open with O_EXCL
960 	// but that doesn't prevent open()/_open() on Windows from opening
961 	// files like "con" or "nul".
962 	//
963 	// With DJGPP this check is done with stat() even before opening
964 	// the output file. That method or a variant of it doesn't work on
965 	// Windows because on Windows stat()/_stat64() sets st.st_mode so
966 	// that S_ISREG(st.st_mode) will be true even for special files.
967 	// With fstat()/_fstat64() it works.
968 	else if (pair->dest_fd != STDOUT_FILENO
969 			&& !S_ISREG(pair->dest_st.st_mode)) {
970 		message_error("%s: Destination is not a regular file",
971 				pair->dest_name);
972 
973 		// dest_fd needs to be reset to -1 to keep io_close() working.
974 		(void)close(pair->dest_fd);
975 		pair->dest_fd = -1;
976 
977 		free(pair->dest_name);
978 		return true;
979 	}
980 #elif !defined(TUKLIB_DOSLIKE)
981 	else if (try_sparse && opt_mode == MODE_DECOMPRESS) {
982 		// When writing to standard output, we need to be extra
983 		// careful:
984 		//  - It may be connected to something else than
985 		//    a regular file.
986 		//  - We aren't necessarily writing to a new empty file
987 		//    or to the end of an existing file.
988 		//  - O_APPEND may be active.
989 		//
990 		// TODO: I'm keeping this disabled for DOS-like systems
991 		// for now. FAT doesn't support sparse files, but NTFS
992 		// does, so maybe this should be enabled on Windows after
993 		// some testing.
994 		if (pair->dest_fd == STDOUT_FILENO) {
995 			if (!S_ISREG(pair->dest_st.st_mode))
996 				return false;
997 
998 			if (stdout_flags & O_APPEND) {
999 				// Creating a sparse file is not possible
1000 				// when O_APPEND is active (it's used by
1001 				// shell's >> redirection). As I understand
1002 				// it, it is safe to temporarily disable
1003 				// O_APPEND in xz, because if someone
1004 				// happened to write to the same file at the
1005 				// same time, results would be bad anyway
1006 				// (users shouldn't assume that xz uses any
1007 				// specific block size when writing data).
1008 				//
1009 				// The write position may be something else
1010 				// than the end of the file, so we must fix
1011 				// it to start writing at the end of the file
1012 				// to imitate O_APPEND.
1013 				if (lseek(STDOUT_FILENO, 0, SEEK_END) == -1)
1014 					return false;
1015 
1016 				// Construct the new file status flags.
1017 				// If O_NONBLOCK was set earlier in this
1018 				// function, it must be kept here too.
1019 				int flags = stdout_flags & ~O_APPEND;
1020 				if (restore_stdout_flags)
1021 					flags |= O_NONBLOCK;
1022 
1023 				// If this fcntl() fails, we continue but won't
1024 				// try to create sparse output. The original
1025 				// flags will still be restored if needed (to
1026 				// unset O_NONBLOCK) when the file is finished.
1027 				if (fcntl(STDOUT_FILENO, F_SETFL, flags) == -1)
1028 					return false;
1029 
1030 				// Disabling O_APPEND succeeded. Mark
1031 				// that the flags should be restored
1032 				// in io_close_dest(). (This may have already
1033 				// been set when enabling O_NONBLOCK.)
1034 				restore_stdout_flags = true;
1035 
1036 			} else if (lseek(STDOUT_FILENO, 0, SEEK_CUR)
1037 					!= pair->dest_st.st_size) {
1038 				// Writing won't start exactly at the end
1039 				// of the file. We cannot use sparse output,
1040 				// because it would probably corrupt the file.
1041 				return false;
1042 			}
1043 		}
1044 
1045 		pair->dest_try_sparse = true;
1046 	}
1047 #endif
1048 
1049 	return false;
1050 }
1051 
1052 
1053 extern bool
1054 io_open_dest(file_pair *pair)
1055 {
1056 	signals_block();
1057 	const bool ret = io_open_dest_real(pair);
1058 	signals_unblock();
1059 	return ret;
1060 }
1061 
1062 
1063 /// \brief      Closes destination file of the file_pair structure
1064 ///
1065 /// \param      pair    File whose dest_fd should be closed
1066 /// \param      success If false, the file will be removed from the disk.
1067 ///
1068 /// \return     Zero if closing succeeds. On error, -1 is returned and
1069 ///             error message printed.
1070 static bool
1071 io_close_dest(file_pair *pair, bool success)
1072 {
1073 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
1074 	// If io_open_dest() has disabled O_APPEND, restore it here.
1075 	if (restore_stdout_flags) {
1076 		assert(pair->dest_fd == STDOUT_FILENO);
1077 
1078 		restore_stdout_flags = false;
1079 
1080 		if (fcntl(STDOUT_FILENO, F_SETFL, stdout_flags) == -1) {
1081 			message_error(_("Error restoring the O_APPEND flag "
1082 					"to standard output: %s"),
1083 					strerror(errno));
1084 			return true;
1085 		}
1086 	}
1087 #endif
1088 
1089 	if (pair->dest_fd == -1 || pair->dest_fd == STDOUT_FILENO)
1090 		return false;
1091 
1092 	if (close(pair->dest_fd)) {
1093 		message_error(_("%s: Closing the file failed: %s"),
1094 				pair->dest_name, strerror(errno));
1095 
1096 		// Closing destination file failed, so we cannot trust its
1097 		// contents. Get rid of junk:
1098 		io_unlink(pair->dest_name, &pair->dest_st);
1099 		free(pair->dest_name);
1100 		return true;
1101 	}
1102 
1103 	// If the operation using this file wasn't successful, we git rid
1104 	// of the junk file.
1105 	if (!success)
1106 		io_unlink(pair->dest_name, &pair->dest_st);
1107 
1108 	free(pair->dest_name);
1109 
1110 	return false;
1111 }
1112 
1113 
1114 extern void
1115 io_close(file_pair *pair, bool success)
1116 {
1117 	// Take care of sparseness at the end of the output file.
1118 	if (success && pair->dest_try_sparse
1119 			&& pair->dest_pending_sparse > 0) {
1120 		// Seek forward one byte less than the size of the pending
1121 		// hole, then write one zero-byte. This way the file grows
1122 		// to its correct size. An alternative would be to use
1123 		// ftruncate() but that isn't portable enough (e.g. it
1124 		// doesn't work with FAT on Linux; FAT isn't that important
1125 		// since it doesn't support sparse files anyway, but we don't
1126 		// want to create corrupt files on it).
1127 		if (lseek(pair->dest_fd, pair->dest_pending_sparse - 1,
1128 				SEEK_CUR) == -1) {
1129 			message_error(_("%s: Seeking failed when trying "
1130 					"to create a sparse file: %s"),
1131 					pair->dest_name, strerror(errno));
1132 			success = false;
1133 		} else {
1134 			const uint8_t zero[1] = { '\0' };
1135 			if (io_write_buf(pair, zero, 1))
1136 				success = false;
1137 		}
1138 	}
1139 
1140 	signals_block();
1141 
1142 	// Copy the file attributes. We need to skip this if destination
1143 	// file isn't open or it is standard output.
1144 	if (success && pair->dest_fd != -1 && pair->dest_fd != STDOUT_FILENO)
1145 		io_copy_attrs(pair);
1146 
1147 	// Close the destination first. If it fails, we must not remove
1148 	// the source file!
1149 	if (io_close_dest(pair, success))
1150 		success = false;
1151 
1152 	// Close the source file, and unlink it if the operation using this
1153 	// file pair was successful and we haven't requested to keep the
1154 	// source file.
1155 	io_close_src(pair, success);
1156 
1157 	signals_unblock();
1158 
1159 	return;
1160 }
1161 
1162 
1163 extern void
1164 io_fix_src_pos(file_pair *pair, size_t rewind_size)
1165 {
1166 	assert(rewind_size <= IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
1167 
1168 	if (rewind_size > 0) {
1169 		// This doesn't need to work on unseekable file descriptors,
1170 		// so just ignore possible errors.
1171 		(void)lseek(pair->src_fd, -(off_t)(rewind_size), SEEK_CUR);
1172 	}
1173 
1174 	return;
1175 }
1176 
1177 
1178 extern size_t
1179 io_read(file_pair *pair, io_buf *buf, size_t size)
1180 {
1181 	assert(size <= IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
1182 
1183 	size_t pos = 0;
1184 
1185 	while (pos < size) {
1186 		const ssize_t amount = read(
1187 				pair->src_fd, buf->u8 + pos, size - pos);
1188 
1189 		if (amount == 0) {
1190 			pair->src_eof = true;
1191 			break;
1192 		}
1193 
1194 		if (amount == -1) {
1195 			if (errno == EINTR) {
1196 				if (user_abort)
1197 					return SIZE_MAX;
1198 
1199 				continue;
1200 			}
1201 
1202 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
1203 			if (IS_EAGAIN_OR_EWOULDBLOCK(errno)) {
1204 				// Disable the flush-timeout if no input has
1205 				// been seen since the previous flush and thus
1206 				// there would be nothing to flush after the
1207 				// timeout expires (avoids busy waiting).
1208 				const int timeout = pair->src_has_seen_input
1209 						? mytime_get_flush_timeout()
1210 						: -1;
1211 
1212 				switch (io_wait(pair, timeout, true)) {
1213 				case IO_WAIT_MORE:
1214 					continue;
1215 
1216 				case IO_WAIT_ERROR:
1217 					return SIZE_MAX;
1218 
1219 				case IO_WAIT_TIMEOUT:
1220 					pair->flush_needed = true;
1221 					return pos;
1222 
1223 				default:
1224 					message_bug();
1225 				}
1226 			}
1227 #endif
1228 
1229 			message_error(_("%s: Read error: %s"),
1230 					pair->src_name, strerror(errno));
1231 
1232 			return SIZE_MAX;
1233 		}
1234 
1235 		pos += (size_t)(amount);
1236 
1237 		if (!pair->src_has_seen_input) {
1238 			pair->src_has_seen_input = true;
1239 			mytime_set_flush_time();
1240 		}
1241 	}
1242 
1243 	return pos;
1244 }
1245 
1246 
1247 extern bool
1248 io_seek_src(file_pair *pair, uint64_t pos)
1249 {
1250 	// Caller must not attempt to seek past the end of the input file
1251 	// (seeking to 100 in a 100-byte file is seeking to the end of
1252 	// the file, not past the end of the file, and thus that is allowed).
1253 	//
1254 	// This also validates that pos can be safely cast to off_t.
1255 	if (pos > (uint64_t)(pair->src_st.st_size))
1256 		message_bug();
1257 
1258 	if (lseek(pair->src_fd, (off_t)(pos), SEEK_SET) == -1) {
1259 		message_error(_("%s: Error seeking the file: %s"),
1260 				pair->src_name, strerror(errno));
1261 		return true;
1262 	}
1263 
1264 	pair->src_eof = false;
1265 
1266 	return false;
1267 }
1268 
1269 
1270 extern bool
1271 io_pread(file_pair *pair, io_buf *buf, size_t size, uint64_t pos)
1272 {
1273 	// Using lseek() and read() is more portable than pread() and
1274 	// for us it is as good as real pread().
1275 	if (io_seek_src(pair, pos))
1276 		return true;
1277 
1278 	const size_t amount = io_read(pair, buf, size);
1279 	if (amount == SIZE_MAX)
1280 		return true;
1281 
1282 	if (amount != size) {
1283 		message_error(_("%s: Unexpected end of file"),
1284 				pair->src_name);
1285 		return true;
1286 	}
1287 
1288 	return false;
1289 }
1290 
1291 
1292 static bool
1293 is_sparse(const io_buf *buf)
1294 {
1295 	assert(IO_BUFFER_SIZE % sizeof(uint64_t) == 0);
1296 
1297 	for (size_t i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(buf->u64); ++i)
1298 		if (buf->u64[i] != 0)
1299 			return false;
1300 
1301 	return true;
1302 }
1303 
1304 
1305 static bool
1306 io_write_buf(file_pair *pair, const uint8_t *buf, size_t size)
1307 {
1308 	assert(size <= IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
1309 
1310 	while (size > 0) {
1311 		const ssize_t amount = write(pair->dest_fd, buf, size);
1312 		if (amount == -1) {
1313 			if (errno == EINTR) {
1314 				if (user_abort)
1315 					return true;
1316 
1317 				continue;
1318 			}
1319 
1320 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
1321 			if (IS_EAGAIN_OR_EWOULDBLOCK(errno)) {
1322 				if (io_wait(pair, -1, false) == IO_WAIT_MORE)
1323 					continue;
1324 
1325 				return true;
1326 			}
1327 #endif
1328 
1329 			// Handle broken pipe specially. gzip and bzip2
1330 			// don't print anything on SIGPIPE. In addition,
1331 			// gzip --quiet uses exit status 2 (warning) on
1332 			// broken pipe instead of whatever raise(SIGPIPE)
1333 			// would make it return. It is there to hide "Broken
1334 			// pipe" message on some old shells (probably old
1335 			// GNU bash).
1336 			//
1337 			// We don't do anything special with --quiet, which
1338 			// is what bzip2 does too. If we get SIGPIPE, we
1339 			// will handle it like other signals by setting
1340 			// user_abort, and get EPIPE here.
1341 			if (errno != EPIPE)
1342 				message_error(_("%s: Write error: %s"),
1343 					pair->dest_name, strerror(errno));
1344 
1345 			return true;
1346 		}
1347 
1348 		buf += (size_t)(amount);
1349 		size -= (size_t)(amount);
1350 	}
1351 
1352 	return false;
1353 }
1354 
1355 
1356 extern bool
1357 io_write(file_pair *pair, const io_buf *buf, size_t size)
1358 {
1359 	assert(size <= IO_BUFFER_SIZE);
1360 
1361 	if (pair->dest_try_sparse) {
1362 		// Check if the block is sparse (contains only zeros). If it
1363 		// sparse, we just store the amount and return. We will take
1364 		// care of actually skipping over the hole when we hit the
1365 		// next data block or close the file.
1366 		//
1367 		// Since io_close() requires that dest_pending_sparse > 0
1368 		// if the file ends with sparse block, we must also return
1369 		// if size == 0 to avoid doing the lseek().
1370 		if (size == IO_BUFFER_SIZE) {
1371 			// Even if the block was sparse, treat it as non-sparse
1372 			// if the pending sparse amount is large compared to
1373 			// the size of off_t. In practice this only matters
1374 			// on 32-bit systems where off_t isn't always 64 bits.
1375 			const off_t pending_max
1376 				= (off_t)(1) << (sizeof(off_t) * CHAR_BIT - 2);
1377 			if (is_sparse(buf) && pair->dest_pending_sparse
1378 					< pending_max) {
1379 				pair->dest_pending_sparse += (off_t)(size);
1380 				return false;
1381 			}
1382 		} else if (size == 0) {
1383 			return false;
1384 		}
1385 
1386 		// This is not a sparse block. If we have a pending hole,
1387 		// skip it now.
1388 		if (pair->dest_pending_sparse > 0) {
1389 			if (lseek(pair->dest_fd, pair->dest_pending_sparse,
1390 					SEEK_CUR) == -1) {
1391 				message_error(_("%s: Seeking failed when "
1392 						"trying to create a sparse "
1393 						"file: %s"), pair->dest_name,
1394 						strerror(errno));
1395 				return true;
1396 			}
1397 
1398 			pair->dest_pending_sparse = 0;
1399 		}
1400 	}
1401 
1402 	return io_write_buf(pair, buf->u8, size);
1403 }
1404