Patch from vodz:

    Changed email address
    cmdedit API change
    optimizations for traceroute and md5sum
    added a new shared create_icmp_socket() function

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/create_icmp_socket.c b/libbb/create_icmp_socket.c
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index 0000000..d804b39
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+++ b/libbb/create_icmp_socket.c
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+/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
+/*
+ * Utility routines.
+ *
+ * create raw socket for icmp protocol test permision
+ * and drop root privilegies if running setuid
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <netdb.h>
+#include <sys/socket.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include "libbb.h"
+
+int create_icmp_socket(void)
+{
+	struct protoent *proto;
+	int sock;
+
+	proto = getprotobyname("icmp");
+	/* if getprotobyname failed, just silently force
+	 * proto->p_proto to have the correct value for "icmp" */
+	if ((sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW,
+			(proto ? proto->p_proto : 1))) < 0) {        /* 1 == ICMP */
+		if (errno == EPERM)
+			error_msg_and_die("permission denied. (are you root?)");
+		else
+			perror_msg_and_die(can_not_create_raw_socket);
+	}
+
+	/* drop root privs if running setuid */
+	setuid(getuid());
+
+	return sock;
+}