/* unlinkdir.c - determine whether we can unlink directories Copyright (C) 2005-2006, 2009-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 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 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 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 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, see . */ /* Written by Paul Eggert, Jim Meyering, and David Bartley. */ #include #include "unlinkdir.h" #include "priv-set.h" #include "root-uid.h" #include #if ! UNLINK_CANNOT_UNLINK_DIR /* Return true if we cannot unlink directories, false if we might be able to unlink directories. */ bool cannot_unlink_dir (void) { static bool initialized; static bool cannot; if (! initialized) { # if defined PRIV_SYS_LINKDIR /* We might be able to unlink directories if we cannot determine our privileges, or if we have the PRIV_SYS_LINKDIR privilege. */ cannot = (priv_set_ismember (PRIV_SYS_LINKDIR) == 0); # else /* In traditional Unix, only root can unlink directories. */ cannot = (geteuid () != ROOT_UID); # endif initialized = true; } return cannot; } #endif