Add explicit cross-references for commands which optionally take an
output variable (otherwise modifying their input in-place) for clarity.
Note that `cmake_path` should not be used to modify variables reserved
by CMake.
Improve references to the "CMake-style" semicolon-separated lists, and
apply those corresponding changes to the `file` command page.
Add security flags to libarchive extraction to prevent path traversal
(Zip Slip) and absolute path attacks:
- ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NODOTDOT: Block ".." path components
- ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_NOABSOLUTEPATHS: Block absolute paths
- ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_SECURE_SYMLINKS: Block symlinks escaping extract dir
This hardens both `cmake -E tar` and `file(ARCHIVE_EXTRACT)` against
malicious archives that attempt to write files outside the intended
extraction directory.
Using `signature` renders the anchor links for each sub-command, and is
consistent with the other `Help/command` pages which contain multiple
sub-commands.
If the connection fails in a way that might be a certificate error, and
verification was enabled by the new default, mention environment
variable `CMAKE_TLS_VERIFY` in the diagnostic to help users that were
relying on the old behavior turn off server certificate verification in
their environment.
Fixes: #23608
When a library file name is encountered multiple times, reuse the result
from the first time. This more closely matches the behavior of the
dynamic loader on Linux.
Fixes: #24621
Projects may be generating a list of files or directories to pass as arguments
to file(TOUCH), file(TOUCH_NOCREATE), or file(MAKE_DIRECTORY). Those
lists might end up being empty, so rather than requiring at least one item,
allow an empty list.
Fixes: #24897
Moved documentation of file(GET_RUNTIME_DEPENDENCIES ...) from
the 'Reading' section to a separate section at the bottom of
the page. Because it is a very long text, and because this
signature is quite different from all the others in the
'Reading' section.
Previously REAL_PATH would collapse paths before resolving any symlinks
so if `..` crossed a symlink the output from `REAL_PATH` would be wrong.
It looked like REAL_PATH did this by mistake since it was a side-effect
of ensuring we had an absolute path before resolving symlinks.
In commit fa45594407 (file(GET_RUNTIME_DEPENDENCIES): Preserve casing
for Windows PE binaries, 2023-03-06) we neglected to update associated
documentation.
Convert `file` command to use new `signature` directive. Use '<HASH>'
rather than 'HASH' for relevant signature targets, as this is arguably
more correct, results in less need to specify explicit targets, but
still produces '#hash' as the HTML anchor.
Although actual textual changes to `file` are fairly minimal, large
portions of the content have been re-indented and in many cases,
re-flowed. Some tabular content in literal text blocks has also been
converted to actual tables.
Some servers have allow-lists for HTTP UserAgent for example.
CMake project devs would benefit from this hint about setting
authorization tokens and HTTP User Agent.
On Windows, a file may be inaccessible for a short time after it is
created. This occurs for various reasons, including indexing, antivirus
tools, and NTFS's asynchronous semantics. Add an `INPUT_MAY_BE_RECENT`
option to tell CMake that the input file may have been recently created
so that we can retry a few times to read it.
This allows the Zstd compression-level to be set between 0-19. I've
adjusted some of the tests, and error messages to indicates the selected
algorithm, and min/max of its compression-level.
Fixes: #24160
Similar to GNU tar add a --touch option to the tar extract command to
skip extracting the timestamps from the files in the archive
effectively touching them as if they were just created.
Issue: #22746