Partially cherry-picked from or inspired by PR bin/36551 by Greg A. Woods,
plus some additional grammar/usage/clarity adjustments while I was passing
through. Any mistakes are mine.
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.
- pass WARNS=4 and lint
- use size_t/time_t where appropriate
- get/setprogname()
- before executing rc.shutdown, set the real user id to 0, because shutdown
scripts may depend on it (for example su depends on being root).
- use warn instead of perror, and make sure we use the right errno.
(which runs rc.shutdown, which might do stuff like, say, save your
ipnat or ipf state for restoration on reboot) can tell machines (sparc
and sun3 machines presently) how to boot.
__CONCAT("foo","bar");
actually works to concantate strings, it's because the preprocessor expands
it into "foo""bar" as separate strings, and then ANSI string concatenation
is performed on that. It's more straightforward to just use ANSI string
concatenation directly, and newer GCCs complain (rightly) about misuse
of token pasting.
indefinitely - by default, wait maximum of 300 seconds only
the timeout is settable via new -T flag
Adjust history to mention addition of shutdown hooks and -T option on manpage
This fixes bin/10637.
indefinitely - by default, wait maximum of 300 seconds only
the timeout is settable via new -T flag
Adjust history to mention addition of shutdown hooks and -T option on manpage,
also move description of -D further up and slighly adjust.
This fixes bin/10637.
uwe