backupfile, chdir-long, fts, savedir: make safer

[gnulib.git] / lib / openat-proc.c

diff --git a/lib/openat-proc.c b/lib/openat-proc.c
index ff2fff0..8057033 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/openat-proc.c
+++ b/lib/openat-proc.c
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 /* Create /proc/self/fd-related names for subfiles of open directories.
 
-   Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2006, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
-   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
-   any later version.
+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+   (at your option) any later version.
 
    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@
    GNU General Public License for more details.
 
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
-   Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
 /* Written by Paul Eggert.  */
 
@@ -35,7 +34,10 @@
 #include "xalloc.h"
 
 /* The results of open() in this file are not used with fchdir,
-   therefore save some unnecessary work in fchdir.c.  */
+   and we do not leak fds to any single-threaded code that could use stdio,
+   therefore save some unnecessary work in fchdir.c.
+   FIXME - if the kernel ever adds support for multi-thread safety for
+   avoiding standard fds, then we should use open_safer.  */
 #undef open
 #undef close