in the exit path ... this function never fails, it simply sometimes
doesn't actually expand the %m and just leaves the format string
intact.
And declare variables at the head of their scope, not at some random
place in the middle of the code, whatever C allows, that is just ugly.
line that needed wrapping so it no longer does, and is (IMO) clearer.
WHile here, note that this was created in 2019, not 2018, for the
copyright notice...
NFCI.
off chance it failed, there's still the possibility that whatever
processes the result will be able to deal with the %m that would
(presumably) be left in the format string.
And as a frill, don't call strerror() until we know we are
going to use its result (still call it only once, no matter
how many %m's are in the format string).
FORTIFY_SOURCE feature of libssp, thus checking the size of arguments to
various string and memory copy and set functions (as well as a few system
calls and other miscellany) where known at function entry. RedHat has
evidently built all "core system packages" with this option for some time.
This option should be used at the top of Makefiles (or Makefile.inc where
this is used for subdirectories) but after any setting of LIB.
This is only useful for userland code, and cannot be used in libc or in
any code which includes the libc internals, because it overrides certain
libc functions with macros. Some effort has been made to make USE_FORT=yes
work correctly for a full-system build by having the bsd.sys.mk logic
disable the feature where it should not be used (libc, libssp iteself,
the kernel) but no attempt has been made to build the entire system with
USE_FORT and doing so will doubtless expose numerous bugs and misfeatures.
Adjust the system build so that all programs and libraries that are setuid,
directly handle network data (including serial comm data), perform
authentication, or appear likely to have (or have a history of having)
data-driven bugs (e.g. file(1)) are built with USE_FORT=yes by default,
with the exception of libc, which cannot use USE_FORT and thus uses
only USE_SSP by default. Tested on i386 with no ill results; USE_FORT=no
per-directory or in a system build will disable if desired.
latter is invoked recursively, use static (instead of automatic) storage
for the "last" pointer so that we remember where we're up to ...
Fixes bug with hosts.deny rules such as "rpcbind: ALL EXCEPT some.domain".
andvar