From: Andre Noll <maan@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2022 20:55:33 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: fd.c: Improve error checking of para_mkdir().
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fd.c: Improve error checking of para_mkdir().

The old code returned success in case the pathname existed but was
no directory, so try to improve on this a bit. However, don't be
over-zealous as any pathname based approach won't be bullet-proof
because the file identified by the pathname may change at any time.
---

diff --git a/fd.c b/fd.c
index 917ed186..f30bd8d6 100644
--- a/fd.c
+++ b/fd.c
@@ -447,17 +447,25 @@ close_cwd:
  * This function passes the fixed mode value 0777 to mkdir(3) (which consults
  * the file creation mask and restricts this value).
  *
- * \return Zero if the directory already existed, one if the directory has been
- * created, negative error code if the mkdir(3) call failed for any reason
- * other than EEXIST.
+ * \return Zero if the path already existed as a directory or as a symbolic
+ * link which leads to a directory, one if the path did not exist and the
+ * directory has been created successfully, negative error code else.
  */
 int para_mkdir(const char *path)
 {
-	if (mkdir(path, 0777) == 0)
-		return 1;
-	if (errno == EEXIST)
+	/*
+	 * We call opendir(3) rather than relying on stat(2) because this way
+	 * we don't need extra code to get the symlink case right.
+	 */
+	DIR *dir = opendir(path);
+
+	if (dir) {
+		closedir(dir);
 		return 0;
-	return -ERRNO_TO_PARA_ERROR(errno);
+	}
+	if (errno != ENOENT)
+		return -ERRNO_TO_PARA_ERROR(errno);
+	return mkdir(path, 0777) == 0? 1 : -ERRNO_TO_PARA_ERROR(errno);
 }
 
 /**