up somewhat. Change time specification format to similar to that used
by date(1) - taking a command line argument in seconds since the Epoch
is silly. Date parsing based on code from date(1).
Based on work by Paul Janzen for OpenBSD.
Games which run setgid from dm, but don't need to, should drop their
privileges at startup.
Games which have a scorefile should open it at startup, then drop all
privileges leaving just the open writable file descriptor. If the
game can invoke subprocesses, this should be made close-on-exec.
Games with scorefiles should make sure they do not get a file
descriptor < 3. (Otherwise, they could get confused and corrupt the
scorefile when using stdin, stdout or stderr.)
Some old setuid revokes from the days of setuid games change into gid
revokes.
the games.
This merges in all such remaining changes from the Linux port of the
NetBSD games, except in hunt (where substantial changes from OpenBSD
need to be looked at).
Most noreturn attributes were previously added in bin/6144, with some
others that were missed then in bin/8082. Previous `unused'
attributes were covered in bin/6557, bin/8058 and other PRs (all these
PRs have already been handled and closed).
This merges in all such remaining changes from the Linux port of the
NetBSD games, except in hunt (where substantial changes from OpenBSD
need to be looked at).
Some such changes were previously covered in PRs bin/6041, bin/6146,
bin/6148, bin/6150, bin/6151, bin/6580, bin/6660, bin/7993, bin/7994,
bin/8039, bin/8057 and bin/8093.
of the card decks file, just write out the number of cards for each
deck. Also use "off_t" for offsets into the file (that are stored after
the number of cards) instead of "long".
/usr/share/games/cards.pck is now MI.
the stored the same regardess of the byte order of the generating
host.
Note in the strfile(8) man page that all fields are big-endian, not
in network byte order.
"make build" should now work as a non-root user (tested on Alpha).
mtree spits out lots of warnings during "make distrib-dirs", but
these are non-fatal.
to stderr.
The existing error message ("I don't know what xxx means") is
unchanged, as it is stylisticly in keeping with the light-hearted
nature of the program, and is also more likely to be accurate than the
"no such acronym" error message proposed in 8201.
jsm