I have noticed this issue while I was trying to package sbase-box. Since
sbase-box was in the PHONY target, running sbase-box-install caused it to
be rebuilt when it was unnecessary. This also caused options passed to make
to be lost (such as LDFLAGS).
Although mknod is not a POSIX tool, it is widely available on nearly
all UNIX-like systems. It also can be implemented portably apart
from use of the makedev macros, which is already a requirement of
a couple other tools in sbase.
While we're at it, fix a few bugs:
- Include sys/sysmacros.h if makedev was not defined by sys/types.h
- The default mode should respect the user's umask, rather than
assuming it is 022.
- Clear the umask when -m is specified explicitly so that nodes can
be created with permissions wider than the user's umask.
- Utilize parsemode from libutil to support symbolic mode strings.
writeall makes successive write calls to write an entire buffer to the
output file descriptor. It returns the number of bytes written, or -1 on
the first error.
For sort(1) we need memmem(), which I imported from OpenBSD.
Inside sort(1), the changes involved working with the explicit lengths
given by getlines() earlier and rewriting some of the functions.
Now we can handle NUL-characters in the input just fine.
strmem() was not very well thought out. The thing is the following:
If the string contains a zero character, we want to match it, and not
stop right there in place.
The "real" solution is to use memmem() where needed and replace all
functions that assume zero-terminated-strings from standard input, which
could lead to early string-breakoffs.
This requires a strict tracking of string lengths.
We want our delimiters to also contain 0 characters and have them
handled gracefully.
To accomplish this, I wrote a function strmem(), which looks for a
certain, arbitrarily long memory subset in a given string.
memmem() is a GNU extension and forces you to call strlen every time.
-s strip binary
-d create directory
-D create missing directories
-t DIR target directory
-m MODE permission bits
-o USER set owner
-g GROUP set group
Installed files are copied, and default mode is 755.
Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@kth.se>
Every system is going to have a different configuration
so the only solution is to put an ifdef guard for every
value. To do this, we generate the header at compile time
with a shell script.
The logic is simple, it's just a pain in the ass to fill the
data-structures.
Some lines had to be commented out, as glibc/musl apparently
have not fully implemented the mandatory variables for the
2013 corrigendum of POSIX 2008.
Also added a manpage and the necessary entries in README.
I also removed it from the TODO.
This is a utility function to allow easy parsing of file or other
offsets, automatically taking in regard suffixes, proper bases and
so on, for instance used in split(1) -b or od -j, -N(1).
Of course, POSIX is very arbitrary when it comes to defining the
parsing rules for different tools.
The main focus here lies on being as flexible and consistent as
possible. One central utility-function handling the parsing makes
this stuff a lot more trivial.
This client does not support the netascii mode. The default mode
is octet/binary and should be sufficient.
One thing left to do is to check the source port of the server
to make sure it doesn't change. If it does, we should ignore the
packet and send an error back without disturbing an existing
transfer.
Using $(LD) directly for linking can cause issues with cross-compilers
and various other toolchains, as various libraries such as libc may not
be implicitly linked in, causing symbol resolution errors.
Linking through the C compiler frontend solves this issue.
Where should I start? It's a rather irrelevant tool and broken as is.
We'll re-add it as soon as the code has been fixed by the original
author.
Until then, better keep it out or some kids get hurt.
This has been a known issue for a long time. Example:
printf "word" > /dev/full
wouldn't report there's not enough space on the device.
This is due to the fact that every libc has internal buffers
for stdout which store fragments of written data until they reach
a certain size or on some callback to flush them all at once to the
kernel.
You can force the libc to flush them with fflush(). In case flushing
fails, you can check the return value of fflush() and report an error.
However, previously, sbase didn't have such checks and without fflush(),
the libc silently flushes the buffers on exit without checking the errors.
No offense, but there's no way for the libc to report errors in the exit-
condition.
GNU coreutils solve this by having onexit-callbacks to handle the flushing
and report issues, but they have obvious deficiencies.
After long discussions on IRC, we came to the conclusion that checking the
return value of every io-function would be a bit too much, and having a
general-purpose fclose-wrapper would be the best way to go.
It turned out that fclose() alone is not enough to detect errors. The right
way to do it is to fflush() + check ferror on the fp and then to a fclose().
This is what fshut does and that's how it's done before each return.
The return value is obviously affected, reporting an error in case a flush
or close failed, but also when reading failed for some reason, the error-
state is caught.
the !!( ... + ...) construction is used to call all functions inside the
brackets and not "terminating" on the first.
We want errors to be reported, but there's no reason to stop flushing buffers
when one other file buffer has issues.
Obviously, functionales come before the flush and ret-logic comes after to
prevent early exits as well without reporting warnings if there are any.
One more advantage of fshut() is that it is even able to report errors
on obscure NFS-setups which the other coreutils are unable to detect,
because they only check the return-value of fflush() and fclose(),
not ferror() as well.
pathconf() is just an insane interface to use. All sane operating-
systems set sane values for PATH_MAX. Due to the by-runtime-nature of
pathconf(), it actually weakens the programs depending on its values.
Given over 3 years it has still not been possible to implement a sane
and easy to use apathmax()-utility-function, and after discussing this
on IRC, we'll dump this garbage.
We are careful enough not to overflow PATH_MAX and even if, any user
is able to set another limit in config.mk if he so desires.
After a short correspondence with Otto Moerbeek it turned out
mallocarray() is only in the OpenBSD-Kernel, because the kernel-
malloc doesn't have realloc.
Userspace applications should rather use reallocarray with an
explicit NULL-pointer.
Assuming reallocarray() will become available in c-stdlibs in the
next few years, we nip mallocarray() in the bud to allow an easy
transition to a system-provided version when the day comes.
A function used only in the OpenBSD-Kernel as of now, but it surely
provides a helpful interface when you just don't want to make sure
the incoming pointer to erealloc() is really NULL so it behaves
like malloc, making it a bit more safer.
Talking about *allocarray(): It's definitely a major step in code-
hardening. Especially as a system administrator, you should be
able to trust your core tools without having to worry about segfaults
like this, which can easily lead to privilege escalation.
How do the GNU coreutils handle this?
$ strings -n 4611686018427387903
strings: invalid minimum string length -1
$ strings -n 4611686018427387904
strings: invalid minimum string length 0
They silently overflow...
In comparison, sbase:
$ strings -n 4611686018427387903
mallocarray: out of memory
$ strings -n 4611686018427387904
mallocarray: out of memory
The first out of memory is actually a true OOM returned by malloc,
whereas the second one is a detected overflow, which is not marked
in a special way.
Now tell me which diagnostic error-messages are easier to understand.
Stateless and I stumbled upon this issue while discussing the
semantics of read, accepting a size_t but only being able to return
ssize_t, effectively lacking the ability to report successful
reads > SSIZE_MAX.
The discussion went along and we came to the topic of input-based
memory allocations. Basically, it was possible for the argument
to a memory-allocation-function to overflow, leading to a segfault
later.
The OpenBSD-guys came up with the ingenious reallocarray-function,
and I implemented it as ereallocarray, which automatically returns
on error.
Read more about it here[0].
A simple testcase is this (courtesy to stateless):
$ sbase-strings -n (2^(32|64) / 4)
This will segfault before this patch and properly return an OOM-
situation afterwards (thanks to the overflow-check in reallocarray).
[0]: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi/OpenBSD-current/man3/calloc.3
col is used to display troff documents in ttys, removing the reverse
line feeds generated by .2C in ms. This implementation keeps the limit
of 256 lines of 800 characteres of the original implementation.
rule to make sbase-box and setup symlinks for $BIN and /bin/[
some (maybe) interesting info:
$ make LDFLAGS="-s -static" CFLAGS="-Os" PREFIX=/ DESTDIR=`pwd`/static-normal install
$ make LDFLAGS="-s -static" CFLAGS="-Os" PREFIX=/ DESTDIR=`pwd`/static-box sbase-box-install
$ du -sk static-normal/ static-box
2728 static-normal/
572 static-box
