[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#583922: thunar: does not check return value of close() when copying files

John Lindgren john.lindgren at tds.net
Mon May 31 17:10:19 UTC 2010


Package: thunar
Version: 1.0.1-4
Severity: normal

thunar-vfs/thunar-vfs-io-local-xfer.c:334:   close (target_fd);

There is no check for errors, contrary to what is recommended by "man 2
close":

        Not checking the return value of close() is a common but
        nevertheless serious programming error.  It is quite possible
        that errors on a previous write(2) operation are first reported
        at the final close().  Not checking the return value when
        closing the file may lead to silent loss of data.  This can
        especially be observed with NFS and with disk quota.

Actually, the files should be synced to disk before closing them in
order to check for I/O errors:

        A successful close does not guarantee that the data has been
        successfully saved to disk, as the kernel defers writes.  It is
        not common for a file system to flush the buffers when the
        stream is closed.  If you need to be sure that the data is
        physically stored use fsync(2).  (It will depend on the disk
        hardware at this point.)

John Lindgren


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages thunar depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils            0.15-2     Utilities for .desktop files
ii  exo-utils                     0.3.106-2  Utility files for libexo
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.30.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-9   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.10-4   The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.86-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexo-0.3-0                  0.3.106-2  Library with extensions for Xfce
ii  libfreetype6                  2.3.11-1   FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.1-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.20.1-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.6-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.28.0-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.1-1  X11 Session Management library
ii  libthunar-vfs-1-2             1.0.1-4    VFS abstraction used in thunar
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library
ii  libxfce4util4                 4.6.1-2    Utility functions library for Xfce
ii  shared-mime-info              0.71-1     FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
ii  thunar-data                   1.0.1-4    Provides thunar documentation, ico

Versions of packages thunar recommends:
ii  dbus-x11                  1.2.1-5+lenny1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gamin                     0.1.10-2+b1    File and directory monitoring syst
ii  hal                       0.5.14-2       Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  thunar-volman             0.3.80-4       Thunar extension for volumes manag
pn  xdg-user-dirs             <none>         (no description available)
ii  xfce4-panel               4.6.3-1        The Xfce4 desktop environment pane

Versions of packages thunar suggests:
pn  thunar-archive-plugin         <none>     (no description available)
pn  thunar-media-tags-plugin      <none>     (no description available)

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