Norman Feske 0e3a9bfe1f libc: fix cached ioctl info file access
This patch solves the false-negative error message "failed to open file"
referring to an ioctl info file during an ioctl call. The message is
now avoided by checking for the existence of the file before reading it.

However, the observed symptom uncovered an actual bug that was
introduced in commit "libc vfs: open OSS 'info' file only once" with
the attempt to cache the content of ioctl info files. When called
multiple time for different paths, 'Vfs_plugin::_with_info' would
wrongly return the info from the first call as cached in a local
static variable.

The patch fixes the problem by a new added 'Cached_ioctl_info'
implementation in the scope of the 'Vfs_plugin'.

Issue #4372
Fixes #4852
2023-05-04 11:59:14 +02:00
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