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README
~~~~~~
daemon - turns other processes into daemons
DESCRIPTION
~~~~~~~~~~~
Daemon turns other processes into daemons. There are many tasks that need to
be performed to correctly set up a daemon process. This can be tedious.
Daemon performs these tasks for other processes. This is useful for writing
daemons in languages other than C, C++ or Perl (e.g. /bin/sh, Java).
If you want to write daemons in languages that can link against C functions
(e.g. C, C++), see libslack which contains the core functionality of daemon.
DETAILS
~~~~~~~
Daemon turns other processes into daemons. There are many tasks that need to
be performed to correctly set up a daemon process. This can be tedious.
Daemon performs these tasks for other processes.
The preparatory tasks that daemon performs for other processes are:
First revoke any setuid or setgid privileges that daemon may have been
installed with (by system administrators who laugh in the face of danger).
Process command line options.
Change the root directory if the --chroot option was supplied.
Change the process uid and gid if the --user option was supplied. Only
root can use this option. Note that the uid of daemon itself is changed,
rather than just changing the uid of the client process.
Read the configuration file (/etc/daemon.conf by default, or specified
by the --config option). Note: The root directory and the user must be
set before access to the configuration file can be attempted so neither
--chroot nor --user options may appear in the configuration file.
Disable core file generation to prevent security holes in daemons run by
root (unless the --core option is supplied).
Become a daemon process:
o If daemon was not invoked by init(8) or inetd(8):
o Background the process to lose process group leadership.
o Start a new process session.
o Under SVR4, background the process again to lose process session
leadership. This prevents the process from ever gaining a controlling
terminal. This only happens when SVR4 is defined and
NO_EXTRA_SVR4_FORK is not defined when libslack is compiled.
Before doing this, ignore SIGHUP because when the session leader
terminates, all processes in the foreground process group are sent a
SIGHUP signal. Note that this code may not execute (e.g. when started
by init(8) or inetd(8) or when either SVR4 was not defined or
NO_EXTRA_SVR4_FORK was defined when libslack was compiled). This
means that the client can't make any assumptions about the SIGHUP
handler when daemon_init() returns.
o Change directory to the root directory so as not to hamper umounts.
o Clear the umask to enable explicit file creation modes.
o Close all open file descriptors. If daemon was invoked by inetd(8)
stdin, stdout and stderr are left open since they are open to a
socket.
o Open stdin, stdout and stderr to /dev/null in case something
requires them to be open. Of course, this is not done if daemon was
invoked by inetd(8).
o If the --name option is supplied, create and lock a file containing the
process id of the daemon process. The presence of this locked file
prevents two instances of a daemon with the same name from running at the
same time. The default location of the pidfile is /var/run on Linux and
/etc on Solaris for root or /tmp for ordinary users.
If the --umask option was supplied, set the umask to its argument.
Otherwise, set the umask to 022 to prevent accidentally creating group or
world writable files.
Set the current directory if the --chdir option was supplied.
Daemon then spawns the client command specified on its command line and
waits for it to terminate.
If the --syslog, --outlog and/or --errlog option were supplied, the client's
standard output and/or standard error are captured by daemon and sent to the
respective syslog destinations.
When the client terminates, daemon respawns it if the --respawn option is
supplied and the client terminated successfully after at least 600 seconds.
Otherwise daemon terminates.
If daemon receives a SIGTERM signal, it propagates the signal to the client
and then terminates.
Note: For security reasons, never install daemon with setuid or setgid
privileges. It is unnecessary. If you do, daemon will revert to the real
user and group for safety before doing anything else.
INSTALL
~~~~~~~
Currently, this is only known to work on the following systems:
Linux 2.2/2.4 (intel, Redhat 6.x/7.x/9, Debian 2.2r6/3.0r0)
Solaris 2.6/8 (sparc, intel)
OpenBSD 2.9/3.1 (intel)
FreeBSD 4.5 (intel)
Mac OS X (Darwin) 10.3.2 (G4)
For these systems, just run the "config" script in the source directory. It
will run the appropriate script in the "conf" directory for the current host.
Note: There isn't a real configure script yet so you will no doubt encounter
problems on other systems. An ISO C and POSIX/XPG4 environment will help
greatly. If your system doesn't have snprintf(3), GNU getopt_long(3),
vsscanf(3), strcasecmp(3), strncasecmp(3), strlcpy(3) or strlcat(3),
uncomment the relevant lines in the libslack/config.h file to include them
in libslack.
If your system doesn't have POSIX 1003.2 compliant regex functions, or they
are buggy, either: install the GNU implementation,
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/regex/regex-0.12.tar.gz [290K]
(doesn't support internationalisation);
or install Henry Spencer's implementation,
ftp://ftp.zoo.toronto.edu/pub/regex.shar [157K].
If you really, really, really don't want the regular expression functions,
uncomment HAVE_REGEX_H in libslack/config.h to enable the rest of the str
module to be compiled.
If you have a linux-2.2.x system, you must have LinuxThreads-0.8 or
LinuxThreads-0.9 and the latest corresponding version of glibc.
If you have a linux-2.4.x system, you must have at least glibc-2.2.1
and glibc-linuxthreads-2.2.1. They are available from
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/glibc/. Older versions can be used but
they have some very nasty bugs.
First, uninstall any previous version:
cd /usr/local/src/daemon-0.6.2
make uninstall
To build and test:
tar xzf daemon-0.6.3.tar.gz
cd daemon-0.6.3
./config # iff linux, solaris, openbsd, freebsd or macosx
make # must be gnu make
make test # only tests libslack. to test daemon, see test/README
To install daemon and its manpage (in /usr/local by default):
make install
To install an empty /etc/daemon.conf file:
make install-daemon-conf
To install libslack and its manpages (into /usr/local by default):
make install-slack
To install into somewhere other than /usr/local:
make PREFIX=/opt/daemon install
To uninstall daemon:
make uninstall
To uninstall libslack:
make uninstall-slack
For more details:
make help
The manpage for daemon is daemon(1). There is one manpage for each module in
libslack (as well as a symlink for each function). The module manpages are
agent(3), coproc(3), daemon(3), err(3), fio(3), hsort(3), lim(3), link(3),
list(3), locker(3), map(3), mem(3), msg(3), net(3), prog(3), prop(3),
pseudo(3), sig(3) and str(3). If necessary, the manpages getopt(3),
snprintf(3) and vsscanf(3) are created as well.
BINARY PACKAGES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
To install from the RPM binary package (into /usr by default):
rpm -i daemon-0.6.3-1.i386.rpm
To install from the RPM binary package into somewhere other than /usr:
rpm --prefix=/usr/local -i daemon-0.6.3-1.i386.rpm
To install from the (relocatable) Debian binary package (into /usr):
dpkg -i daemon_0.6.3-0_i386.deb # you should really use apt-get
Install from the OpenBSD binary package (into /usr/local):
pkg_add daemon-0.6.3-obsd-i386.tar.gz
Install from the FreeBSD binary package (into /usr/local):
pkg_add daemon-0.6.3-fbsd-i386.tar.gz
Install from the (relocatable) Mac OS X binary package (into /usr/local):
cd /usr/local
tar xzf /usr/local/src/daemon-0.6.3-osx-powerpc.tar.gz
To install from the (relocatable) Solaris8 binary package (into /opt/daemon):
gunzip daemon-0.6.3.sun4u.pkg.gz
pkgadd -d daemon-0.6.3.sun4u.pkg
or:
gunzip daemon-0.6.3.i86pc.pkg.gz
pkgadd -d daemon-0.6.3.i86pc.pkg
REQUIREMENTS
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Requires GNU make to compile.
Requires perl to run the scripts in the conf directory.
Repuires perl to install per-function manpage links.
Requires an ISO C compiler like gcc to compile the source.
Requires pod2man (comes with perl) to make the manpages.
Requires pod2html (comes with perl) to make the html manpages.
Requires POSIX 1003.2 compliant regex functions. See INSTALL.
Requires libpthread. See INSTALL.
PLATFORM NOTES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Linux
~~~~~
Linux 2.2 always returns 0.0.0.0 on getsockopt(IP_MULTICAST_IF) so
net_multicast_get_interface() always returns 0 under Linux 2.2. Linux 2.4
does not have this bug.
Make sure you have a recent glibc (at least 2.1.3) and libpthread (at least
0.8) (See INSTALL).
Linux 2.2 and 2.4 have a bug in poll(2). It always times out 10ms later than
specified. Libslack corrects for this as best as it can (if > 10ms -= 10ms)
but it's not good enough when you need timers with a granularity of 10ms. In
this case, you have to use agent_create_with_select() instead of
agent_create() under Linux because select() doesn't have this bug. However,
scalable I/O is impossible with select(). So, if you need timers with a
granularity of 10ms *and* scalable I/O, you need an agent that uses select()
in one thread for the timers and separate agents that use poll() in other
threads for the I/O.
Solaris
~~~~~~~
Solaris (at least 2.6 and 2.7) doesn't return the hardware address or index
of network interfaces from ioctl() with a SIOCGIFINDEX command argument.
Libslack fills in the index in net_interfaces().
UNIX domain datagram sockets aren't supported very nicely. An actual
filesystem entry is needed for the client and it must be unlinked after use.
It's also possible for a malicious local user to deny a client access to the
server. The solution is to always use UNIX domain stream sockets.
Solaris has an inadequate snprintf() function so libslack provides it's own
implementation. When configured for Solaris, this snprintf() function will
format exactly like the system's sprintf() function, even though it has
incorrect behaviour with respect to the ISO C standard. I thought this was
better than having thousands of module tests apparently "fail".
OpenBSD
~~~~~~~
Has the same UNIX domain datagram socket problem as Solaris.
FreeBSD
~~~~~~~
Has the same UNIX domain datagram socket problem as Solaris.
Can't lock fifos so fifo_open() can't guarantee a unique reader.
Mac OS X
~~~~~~~~
Probably has the same UNIX domain datagram problem as Solaris.
COPYING
~~~~~~~
daemon - turns other processes into daemons
Copyright (C) 1999-2004 raf <raf@raf.org>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
or visit http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
libslack - A UNIX/C library of general utilities for programmers with Slack
Copyright (C) 1999-2004 raf <raf@raf.org>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
or visit http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
$OpenBSD: strlcpy.c,v 1.4 1999/05/01 18:56:41 millert Exp $
$OpenBSD: strlcat.c,v 1.5 2001/01/13 16:17:24 millert Exp $
Copyright (c) 1998 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY
AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;
OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
MAILING LISTS
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you'd like to be kept up to date with daemon releases or have questions
or suggestions, you can join one or more of the following (extremely low
volume) mailing lists (@libslack.org).
daemon-announce (Announcements)
daemon-users (User forum)
daemon-dev (Development forum)
To subscribe to any of these mailing lists, send a mail message to
<listname>-request@libslack.org with "subscribe" as the message body.
E.g.
$ echo subscribe | mail daemon-announce-request@libslack.org
$ echo subscribe | mail daemon-users-request@libslack.org
$ echo subscribe | mail daemon-dev-request@libslack.org
Or you can send a mail message to majordomo@libslack.org with subscribe
listname in the message body. This way, you can include multiple subscribe
commands to subscribe to multiple lists at the same time.
E.g.
$ mail majordomo@libslack.org
subscribe daemon-announce
subscribe daemon-users
subscribe daemon-dev
.
A digest version of each mailing list is also available. Subscribe to
digests as above but append -digest to the listname.
E.g.
$ echo subscribe | mail daemon-announce-digest-request@libslack.org
$ echo subscribe | mail daemon-users-digest-request@libslack.org
$ echo subscribe | mail daemon-dev-digest-request@libslack.org
Or
$ mail majordomo@libslack.org
subscribe daemon-announce-digest
subscribe daemon-users-digest
subscribe daemon-dev-digest
Note that these are all extremely low volume mailing lists so there's not
much use for the digest lists.
REFERENCES
~~~~~~~~~~
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
W. Richard Stevens
Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, 1992
UNIX Network Programming
W. Richard Stevens
Prentice Hall Software Series, 1990
UNIX System V Network Programming
Stephen A. Rago
Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, 1993
TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1, The Protocols
W. Richard Stevens
Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, 1994
UNIX Network Programming Volume 1, Networking APIs: Sockets and XTI
W. Richard Stevens
Prentice Hall Software Series, 1998
The Practice of Programming
Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike,
Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, 1999
Multithreaded Programming with Pthreads
Bil Lewis and Daniel J. Berg
Sun Microsystem Press/Prentice Hall, 1998
Effective TCP/IP Programming
Jon C. Snader
Addison-Wesley, 2000
Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides
Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, 1995
The Standard C Library
P. J. Plauger
Prentice Hall, 1992
The Discipline and Method Architecture for Reusable Libraries
Kiem-Phong Vo
Software - Practice & Experience, v.30, pp.107-128, 2000
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/sfio/dm-spe.ps
strlcpy and strlcat--Consistent, Safe, String Copy and Concatenation
Todd C. Miller and Theo De Raadt
Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/millert.html
The Perl manpages
Larry Wall
http://www.perl.com/
Practical UNIX and Internet Security
Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford
O'Reilly, 1996
Interconnections - Bridges, Routers, Switches and Internetworking Protocols
Radia Perlman
Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series, 2000
MT-Disciplined
raf
http://raf.org/papers/mt-disciplined.html, 2001
Scalable Makefiles [NOT WRITTEN]
raf
http://raf.org/papers/scalable-makefiles.html, 2001
I/O Event Handling Under Linux
Richard Gooch
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/io-events.html, 1999
Scalable kernel performance for Internet servers under realistic loads
Gaurav Banga and Jeffrey C. Mogul
Proceeding of the Refereed Papers Track: 1998 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/banga.html
TCP Buffering and Performance Over An ATM Network
Purdue Technical Report CSD-TR 94-026 (Revision)
Journal of Internetworking: Research and Experience, Vol. 6 (1), Pages 1-13
Douglas E. Comer and John C. Lin
ftp://gwen.cs.purdue.edu/pub/lin/TCP.atm.ps.Z, 1994
Experimental and Simulation Performance Results of TCP/IP over High-Speed ATM over ACTS
Charalambos, C.; Lazarou, G.; Frost, V.; Evans, J.; Jonkman, R.
Information and Telecommunication Technology Center,
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science,
The University of Kansas
http://acts.lerc.nasa.gov/library/docs/gsn/charalambous.pdf
Revelation X: The "Bob" Apocryphon
Translated by The Subgenius Foundation,
Edited by Reverend Ivan Stang,
Simon & Schuster, 1994
HISTORY
~~~~~~~
0.1 (19991020)
- Initial version
0.2 (19991223)
- Decoupled core file prevention from daemon_init()
into its own function, daemon_prevent_core()
- Decoupled signal handling from daemon_init()
- Cached daemon_started_by_init() and daemon_started_by_inetd() results
- Fixed bug when formatting --help message
- Added some modules to libprog: conf, list, hsort, map, prop
- Added timestamps to msg_out_file()
- Included source to GNU getopt_long_only() (if neccessary)
- Added hdr.h to allow non-ANSI compilers to parse libprog's headers
- Moved libprog to a subdirectory using a "Whole Project" Makefile
- Converted "Whole Project" Makefile into "Scalable" Makefiles
- Added verbosity functions to libprog(prog)
- Added -core option to allow core file generation
- Added -respawn option to allow client respawn if death not too sudden
- Added -syslog option to redirect client stdout and stderr to syslog
- Added -log option to specify where daemon stdout and stderr are sent
- Fixed bug when constructing data for GNU getopt_long_only()
- Fixed bugs in the options table for libprog(prog)
- Changed help message format: separated option chunks by a blank line
- Fixed bug when obtaining names associated with syslog constants
- Added -Config option and /etc/daemon.conf handling
- Added pathetic conf/linux and conf/solaris scripts
- Revert to real uid/gid if not same as effective uid/gid for safety
- Added manpages
0.3 (20000902)
- Started using GNU getopt_long() instead of getopt_long_only()
- Started ignoring /etc/daemon.conf if group or world writable
- Added -DSVR4 in conf/solaris (doh!)
- Added conditional compilation of debug functions
- Added assert macro that calls dump()
- Completed the daemon(1) manpage (common options weren't documented)
- Fixed bug: SIG_IGN, SIG_DFL and nasty signals weren't treated specially
- Made lists grow/shrink exponentially rather than linearly
- Made maps grow as needed and use arbitrary hash functions and key types
- Added multi-dimensional array allocator to the mem module
- Added net module: clients/servers, expect/send, pack/unpack, mail
- Added internal iterators and some more functions to list and map
- Added examples sections to some libprog manpages
- Added --user option
- Added str module: decent strings + tr, regex, regsub, fmt, trim, lc, uc ...
- Added vsscanf(3) implementation for systems that don't have it (e.g. solaris)
- Renamed libprog to libslack (thanks, fred!)
- Added socks.h
- Added daemon_revoke_privileges(), daemon_file_is_safe() to daemon module
- Moved revocation of setuid/setgid privileges to start for greater safety
- Fixed bug: wasn't unlinking pidfile when client died of natural causes
- Fixed bug: wasn't processing config file correctly
- Included daemon(1) tests in distribution (not automatic, though)
0.4 (20010215)
- Fixed memory usage bugs
- Added daemon demo directory (previously, the incomplete "test" directory)
- Changed net server/client functions to use service name else port number
- Fixed security bug: daemon_file_is_safe() wasn't following symlinks (doh!)
- Changed -d and -v options to take optional arguments (both default to 1)
- Renamed daemon_file_is_safe() to daemon_path_is_safe()
- Added daemon_absolute_path() to daemon module
- Added memory pool functions to mem module
- Fixed bug: optional option arguments were handled in dodgy C
- Made supplied snprintf() POSIX compliant (was using getpagesize())
- Removed conf module (Added daemon_parse_config() to daemon module)
- Removed net_chat(), rfc822_localtime(), rfc822_gmtime() (not useful enough)
- Added secure memory/pool functions to mem module
- Fixed Makefile bug: $(CCFLAGS) for daemon and libslack weren't separate
- Added fgetline() to fifo module (reads a line with any line ending)
- Added str_fgetline() to str module (like fgetline but handles any length)
- Renamed fifo module to fio
- Fixed Makefile bug: wasn't uninstalling everything properly
- Changed net_send() to take a timeout argument like next_expect() does
- Added strlcpy(), strlcat(), strcasecmp() and strncasecmp() to str module
- Changed debug levels used by daemon(1) from 8 and 9 to 1 and 2
- Renamed conf/solaris to solaris-gcc and added solaris-cc for sun workshop
- Fixed bug: -n and -u options together failed to unlink pidfiles
- Fixed security bug: wasn't clearing supplementary groups with -u option
- Added support for root and user pidfiles in separate directories
- Added make rpm rpm-daemon rpm-slack (with Edward Avis ed@membled.com)
- Added installation of manpages for each function (link to module manpage)
- Added libslack(3) overview manpage
- Added list_break(), map_break()
- Renamed assert() to check() for obvious reasons
- Renamed re funcs in str module: s/regex/regexpr/g
- Added thread module and made everything MT-Safe or MT-Disciplined
- Added relative index/range semantics to string functions
- Added make deb deb-daemon deb-slack (debian binary packages)
- Added make pkg pkg-daemon pkg-slack (solaris binary packages)
- Added setsockopt(SO_REUSEADDR) for net servers
- Changed net server/client API to allow optional setsockopt(RCVBUF/SNDBUF)
- Added REFERENCES section to README file
- Stopped net_expect/net_send from interfering with SIGALRM/alarm/setitimer
- Added read_timeout(), write_timeout() and rw_timeout() to fio module
- Changed net_read() and net_write() to take a timeout argument
- Added '?' field size specifier to unpack() (for packet length fields)
- Added libslack-config administration utility
- Renamed sockaddr typedef to sockaddr_t
- Changed net_client to take a timeout parameter
- Fixed fd leak in error handling code in net server/client functions
- Fixed bug: str_regsub() didn't handle empty string matches at all
- Changed str_regexpr_split() to take cflags and eflags arguments
- Changed all *_destroy macros to functions that take address of pointer
- Changed mem_resize macro so client must explicitly provide address of mem
- Changed all *_destroy_t typedefs to *_release_t
- Added make [un]install-{daemon|slack}-html (not part of make [un]install)
- Temporarily removed snprintf module (not MT-Safe, not essential)
- Merged lognames module into msg module
- Merged opt module into prog module
- Renamed _* functions in err module to *f (not ANSI compliant)
- Removed MANIFEST
0.5 (20011109)
- Fixed Makefile bug: decoupled libslack optlevel from module test optlevel
- Fixed API bug: str_length_unlocked() was static
- Fixed API bug: prop_locker() prototype wasn't in prop.h
- Added prop_clear() to prop module
- Added octal/hex and error handling to command line integer option handling
- Fixed bug: check() just called dump() without testing the condition first
- Added variants of six standard C string functions with more useful APIs
- Added thread module tests (and locker timing tests)
- Changed locker function return values (now same as pthread return values)
- Improved speed of lockers (now overhead = 1 test + 1 deref + 1 offset)
- Changed item/length/size, bin/hex/oct functions to return -1 on error
- Changed error returns to consistently set errno (str, list, map)
- Added set_errnull() to err module
- Added relative index/range semantics to list functions (same as with str)
- Changed fifo_open() to take writefd return arg to prevent fd leaks
- Simplified mem_resize() assuming ISO C compliant realloc()
- Added internal ISO C compliant realloc() for systems that don't have it
- Fixed bug: optval/optlen for getsockopt(SO_ERROR) not initialised
- Fixed inode leak: fifo_open() didn't unlink fifo created on error
- Removed thread_init(), thread_setcancel() and barriers from thread module
- Renamed thread module to locker (decoupled thread safety)
- Stopped daemon_revoke_privileges() from clearing supplementary group list
- Added initgroups(3) when handling --user=user (with no specific ".group")
- Added --chroot, --chdir and --umask options
- Changed default umask to 022 for safety
- Added support for "debug sections" to debug messaging
- Added daemon_become_user() to daemon module
- Added "_unlocked" versions of functions in str, list and map modules
- Renamed "_locked" functions to "_with_locker" to avoid confusion
- Fixed bug: removed highly dubious synchronisation from internal iterators
- Added read locked iterators
- Added alert functions to prog, err and msg modules
- Systematically corrected function prototype typos in manpages
- Added net_options() to net module (sets multiple socket options)
- Added soundex() to str module
- Removed caching and mutex locks in daemon_started_by_init/inetd()
- Added ignoring SIGHUP before losing session leadership in daemon_init()
- Improved IPv6 support in net module (i.e. can now bind to IPv6 wildcard)
- Added support for UNIX domain sockets to net module
- Increased socket listen queue length from 5 to 1024
- Fixed bug: net service port selection only used numeric port arg
- Added handling of name lookup returning multiple addresses for net clients
- Added default host to net client functions (i.e. null host == loopback)
- Changed net_create_server() and net_create_client() to take sockopt list
- Added support for net clients binding to a specific local port
- Added net_gethostbyname() and net_getservbyname() to net module
- Made net server and client functions threadsafe
- Added socket option notes to net module manpage (from W. Richard Stevens)
- Added protocol design notes to net module manpage (from Radia Perlman)
- Added sendfd() and recvfd() to net module (send/recv open file descriptor)
- Replaced ioctl() with fcntl() in nonblock functions
- Added --outlog and --errlog options
- Fixed/simplified sigchld handling (was overcomplicated and flaky)
- Added support for net client/server service argument being numeric
- Added link module (singly/doubly linked lists and "growable" freelists)
- Added agent module (poll/select plus hierarchical timing wheel scheduler)
- Added net_interfaces() to net module (retrieve list of network interfaces)
- Added support for IPv4 and IPv6 multicasting to net module
- Added Reliability over UDP functions to net module (net_rudp_transact())
- Added Type of Service (TOS) functions to net module
- Changed net_pack/net_unpack functions to take a timeout arg
- Added nap() function to fio module (subsecond sleep)
- Added threadsafe snprintf() function for systems that don't have it
- Added asprintf() to str module for systems that don't have it
- Added config.h to simplify compile commands (prelude to autoconf)
- Removed thread_attr_{init,set}() (not useful enough or portable enough)
- Ported to OpenBSD 2.9
- Added pseudo module (pseudo terminals by Tatu Ylonen from openssh)
- Added coproc module (coprocesses with or without a pseudo terminal)
- Changed syslog functions to take a priority parameter
- Added --force option to daemon (respawn even when client crashes)
- Added make obsd obsd-daemon obsd-slack (openbsd binary packages)
- Added libslack-config --uninstall
- Proofread all of the doco (just once)
- Added setting appropriate TOS values in mail()
- Fixed validation of relative index/range values in str/list modules
- Added relative index semantics to list_item()
- Added read locked versions of map_apply() and list_apply()
- Added make dist-html-daemon and dist-html-slack (manpages as html.tar.gz)
0.6 (20020916)
- Added HEADER FILES section to libslack(3) manpage
- Added #include <slack/std.h> to example sections of module manpages
- Added conf/freebsd (mmoraes@teleias.com)
- Added tools/prefix utility (add prefix to all libslack identifiers)
- Added manpage for tools/analyse-debug-locker utility
- Separated stdout and stderr in coproc_open() and coproc_close()
- Changed coproc open functions to take action() and data arguments
- Started using libslack's coproc functions to run client
- Added chdir to chroot directory (mmoraes@teleias.com)
- Added --env option (mmoraes@teleias.com)
- Changed restart behaviour to be like init(8)
- Added --acceptable option
- Added --attempts option (mmoraes@teleias.com)
- Added --delay option
- Added --limit option
- Removed --force option (no longer meaningful)
- Added --foreground option (suggested by mh+daemon@zugschlus.de)
- Added --pty option
- Exposed daemon_pidfile()
- Added daemon_is_running()
- Added daemon_stop()
- Added --running option
- Added --stop option
- Added --unsafe option
- Added --safe option
- Fixed bug: config file parsing could produce garbage options
- Replaced demo directory with test directory
- Added support for sending client stdout/stderr directly to a file
- Renamed --syslog to --output (-s to -o)
- Renamed --outlog to --stdout (-o to -O)
- Renamed --errlog to --stderr (-e to -E)
- Renamed --log to --errlog
- Added --dbglog option
- Renamed sighandler_t to signal_handler_t (glibc clash - gdr@gno.org)
- Ported to Solaris 8
- Split Solaris configuration scripts into conf/solaris[68]-[g]cc
- Added support for installing gzipped manpages
- Added --inherit option
- Added make daemon.conf (just an empty default)
- Stopped installing libslack as well by default
- Added daemon.conf(5) manpage (just a symlink to daemon(1))
- Added make [un]install-daemon-conf (not by default)
- Added Debian source package generation
- Stopped generating debian package (until it's a shared library)
- Added make fbsd fbsd-daemon fbsd-slack (freebsd binary packages)
- Added --command option (suggested by mh+daemon@zugschlus.de)
- Added support for absolute path in daemon_pidfile()
- Added --pidfiles, --pidfile options (suggested by mh+daemon@zugschlus.de)
- Added daemon_getpid()
- Added --restart option (suggested by mh+daemon@zugschlus.de)
- Added support for ~/.daemonrc
- Added --noconfig option
- Added check for dubious characters in daemon names
- Added libslack-config --upgrade option
- Added lame ./config script that just calls existing lame conf/* scripts
0.6.1 (20030901)
- Fixed bug: --noconfig option broken (spotted by paolo@telmap.com)
- Fixed bug: --command option broken (spotted by paolo@telmap.com)
- Fixed bug: exit too quickly on sigterm (spotted by stodden@cs.tum.edu)
- Set prog name to --name argument, if any (for syslog message prefix)
0.6.2 (20040102)
- Fixed bug: --stop during spawn delay wasn't acted upon
- Fixed API bug: <slack/lib.h> didn't include <slack/coproc.h>
- Fixed bug: -lm wasn't in `libslack-config --libs` on Solaris
- Changed --restart: reset spawn burst counters (for stodden@peppermind.de)
- Changed daemon_path_is_safe() to give an explanation when unsafe
- Added explanations when rejecting unsafe config files and executables
- Fixed bug: reset agent state to IDLE when interrupted (bte@kamash.com)
- Trim unquoted leading spaces from property values (with bte@kamash.com)
- Also trim only unquoted trailing spaces from property names
- Added tools/migrate-properties utility (preserves old propfile behaviour)
- Fixed bug: ownership partially lost in map_resize (with bte@kamash.com)
- Fixed bug: mem_resize was broken since libslack-0.4 (bte@kamash.com)
- Fixed DOC bug: stated the importance of including <slack/lib.h> first
- Cleaned up error messages (now that prog name is set to --name argument)
- Added sections to libslack(3) features list (coproc+pty, low level api)
- Fixed bug: if select() failed (unlikely), coproc wasn't closed properly
- Fixed bug: when tty_raw() failed (unlikely), it returned the wrong value
- Added many examples to the manpages (there are now 91 runnable examples)
- Added tools/check-examples to verify that all examples work
- Fixed bug: str_fgetline() returned empty string rather than null on eof
- Fixed bug: cstrstr() didn't always work due to a typo
- Added sections to libslack(3) features list (documentation, testing)
- Added intel solaris8 binary package
- Ported to Mac OS X (Darwin) 10.3.2
- Added make osx osx-daemon osx-slack (macosx binary packages)
- Added pid to --running output (requested by rubinson@email.arizona.edu)
- Dropped support for K&R clients (suggested by skaller@ozemail.com.au)
- Added hsort_closure(3) (suggested by skaller@maxtal.com.au)
- Added make slack.swig (generate a SWIG input file for libslack)
0.6.3 (20040806)
- Fixed bug: --acceptable was broken (chris@edesix.com)
TODO
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- Port to NetBSD, Cygwin[?]
- Decouple memory type and allocation strategy from List/Map/String code
- Check out/incorporate Kiem-Phong Vo's error handling architecture [?]
- Use autoconf and libtool (then add devel/static/dynamic packages)
- Add debian source package creation for libslack (after libtool)
- Make sure net module interoperates with openssl
- Add scan/print money/numbers/dates/times according to a locale [?]
- Add bitstring module [?]
- Write Scalable Makefiles paper
- Write fast/slow lane paper (requires access to a gigabit network)
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URL: http://libslack.org/daemon/
Date: 20040806
Author: raf <raf@raf.org>
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