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.
- be safe with unlinking files (from freebsd)
- remove register
- clean up $NetBSD$'s.
- use inet_ntoa() in one place (from openbsd)
- nul terminate after a bunch of strncpy()'s
- #ifdef __STDC__ rather than #if (from freebsd)
- be safe with a bunch of string operations (from freebsd)
- use warn()/err() over home grown versions (some from freebsd)
- rename warn() to nodaemon() to remove conflict with above
- check errno from failed kill(2) against ESRCH (from freebsd)
- use getopt() rather than home grown versions (from freebsd)
- clean up a bunch of man pages (some from freebsd)
- check for hostname spoof (from freebsd)
- use POSIX wait() interfaces
- use sysconf(_SC_OPEN_MAX) in preference to NOFILE (from freebsd)
- deal with fork() failure
- index/rindex -> strchr/strrchr (some from freebsd)
- add B57600 and B115200 speeds (from freebsd)
- some KNF
- be safe with files passed in over the network (some from freebsd)
- check return value of malloc(), calloc() and strdup()
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