Implement futimes() in terms of utimensat(). Now, utimensat() strays
from POSIX compliance because it also accepts a combination of a file
descriptor of a regular file and an empty path. utimensat() then uses
this file descriptor instead of the path to update the last access
and/or modification time of a file. That being said, its prior behavior
remains intact.
With the new behavior of utimensat(), `path` must point to a valid
string; given a null pointer instead of an empty string, utimensat()
sets `errno` to `EFAULT` and returns a failure.
This function is an extended version of `chmod(2)` that lets one control
whether to dereference symlinks, and specify a file descriptor to a
directory that will be used as the base for relative paths.
The function fstatat can do the same thing as the stat and lstat
functions. However, it can be passed the file descriptor of a directory
which will be used when as the starting point for relative paths. This
is contrary to stat and lstat which use the current working directory as
the starting for relative paths.
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
This achieves two things:
- Programs can now intentionally perform arbitrary syscalls by calling
syscall(). This allows us to work on things like syscall fuzzing.
- It restricts the ability of userspace to make syscalls to a single
4KB page of code. In order to call the kernel directly, an attacker
must now locate this page and call through it.
