From 58ed67992d0ec1fa505026105218fa449f7980b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 20:15:03 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] cli: config: do not overwrite symlinks when saving config
 file

Use realpath to canonicalize the config path before writing.

Previously 'notmuch setup' and 'notmuch config set' overwrote the
config file even if it was a symbolic link.
---
 notmuch-config.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++----
 test/config      |  1 -
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/notmuch-config.c b/notmuch-config.c
index 66a1cdfb..d9c2eb3f 100644
--- a/notmuch-config.c
+++ b/notmuch-config.c
@@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ int
 notmuch_config_save (notmuch_config_t *config)
 {
     size_t length;
-    char *data;
+    char *data, *filename;
     GError *error = NULL;
 
     data = g_key_file_to_data (config->key_file, &length, NULL);
@@ -453,14 +453,30 @@ notmuch_config_save (notmuch_config_t *config)
 	return 1;
     }
 
-    if (! g_file_set_contents (config->filename, data, length, &error)) {
-	fprintf (stderr, "Error saving configuration to %s: %s\n",
-		 config->filename, error->message);
+    /* Try not to overwrite symlinks. */
+    filename = realpath (config->filename, NULL);
+    if (! filename) {
+	fprintf (stderr, "Error canonicalizing %s: %s\n", config->filename,
+		 strerror (errno));
+	g_free (data);
+	return 1;
+    }
+
+    if (! g_file_set_contents (filename, data, length, &error)) {
+	if (strcmp (filename, config->filename) != 0) {
+	    fprintf (stderr, "Error saving configuration to %s (-> %s): %s\n",
+		     config->filename, filename, error->message);
+	} else {
+	    fprintf (stderr, "Error saving configuration to %s: %s\n",
+		     filename, error->message);
+	}
 	g_error_free (error);
+	free (filename);
 	g_free (data);
 	return 1;
     }
 
+    free (filename);
     g_free (data);
     return 0;
 }
diff --git a/test/config b/test/config
index 344eced3..ca4cf330 100755
--- a/test/config
+++ b/test/config
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ test_expect_equal "$(notmuch --config=alt-config-link config get user.name)" \
     "Link Name"
 
 test_begin_subtest "Writing config file through symlink follows symlink"
-test_subtest_known_broken
 test_expect_equal "$(readlink alt-config-link)" "alt-config"
 
 test_done
-- 
2.43.0