+static bool IsAccessibleBySandboxUser(std::string const &filename, bool const ReadWrite)
+{
+ // you would think this is easily to answer with faccessat, right? Wrong!
+ // It e.g. gets groups wrong, so the only thing which works reliable is trying
+ // to open the file we want to open later on…
+ if (unlikely(filename.empty()))
+ return true;
+
+ if (ReadWrite == false)
+ {
+ errno = 0;
+ // can we read a file? Note that non-existing files are "fine"
+ int const fd = open(filename.c_str(), O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC);
+ if (fd == -1 && errno == EACCES)
+ return false;
+ close(fd);
+ return true;
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ // the file might not exist yet and even if it does we will fix permissions,
+ // so important is here just that the directory it is in allows that
+ std::string const dirname = flNotFile(filename);
+ if (unlikely(dirname.empty()))
+ return true;
+
+ char const * const filetag = ".apt-acquire-privs-test.XXXXXX";
+ std::string const tmpfile_tpl = flCombine(dirname, filetag);
+ std::unique_ptr<char, decltype(std::free) *> tmpfile { strdup(tmpfile_tpl.c_str()), std::free };
+ int const fd = mkstemp(tmpfile.get());
+ if (fd == -1 && errno == EACCES)
+ return false;
+ RemoveFile("IsAccessibleBySandboxUser", tmpfile.get());
+ close(fd);
+ return true;
+ }
+}