[fpc-devel] stat and nil

[Martin Frb]

Are older Linux versions safe to  call stat with a nil pointer?

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/stat.2.html
 >  If /path/ is an empty string (or NULL, since Linux 6.11)

(According to google 6.11 is from 2024 / if so, older versions are still 
out there)



3.3.1\source\rtl\unix\sysutils.pp

Function DirectoryExists (Const Directory : RawByteString; FollowLink : 
Boolean) : Boolean;
Var
   Info : Stat;
   SystemFileName: RawByteString;
   exists: Boolean;
begin
   SystemFileName:=ToSingleByteFileSystemEncodedFileName(Directory);
   exists:=fpstat(pointer(SystemFileName),Info)>=0;


If the filename is empty, then path is nil.

Valgrind annotates that (even on a new Linux)
==28712== Syscall param stat(file_name) points to unaddressable byte(s)
==28712==    at 0x4B2B64: SYSTEM_$$_FPSYSCALL$INT64$INT64$INT64$$INT64 
(in /home/me/lazgit/lazarus)
==28712==    by 0x4B3884: SYSTEM_$$_FPSTAT$PCHAR$STAT$$LONGINT (in 
/home/me/lazgit/lazarus)
==28712==  Address 0x0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
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