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Do not open logfiles with read access #291

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@cgzones cgzones commented Nov 22, 2021

Currently logfiles are opened with read-access, due to cupsFileOpen()
converting "a" into O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_APPEND. This should not be
necessary, as logfiles should be an append-only data structure.
Update cupsFileOpen() to open files with O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_APPEND
on mode "a" and add a fallback mode "a+" (see man:fopen(3)).
Currently only the logfiles and a test file are opened with "a".

Currently logfiles are opened with read-access, due to cupsFileOpen()
converting "a" into `O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_APPEND`. This should not be
necessary, as logfiles should be an append-only data structure.
Update cupsFileOpen() to open files with `O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_APPEND`
on mode "a" and add a fallback mode "a+" (see man:fopen(3)).
Currently only the logfiles and a test file are opened with "a".
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@cgzones There was a reason for this but I haven’t touched this code in a long time. Will investigate…

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No need to add "a+" to this, and all of the investigating I've done hasn't turned up anything useful as to why I used O_RDWR...

@michaelrsweet michaelrsweet added bug Something isn't working priority-low and removed investigating Investigating the issue labels May 4, 2022
@michaelrsweet michaelrsweet added this to the 2.4.2 milestone May 4, 2022
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[master 2a9c963] No longer use O_RDWR for append mode (Issue #291)

@cgzones cgzones deleted the no_read_log branch May 5, 2022 17:51
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