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authorEric Andersen2001-07-12 20:26:32 +0000
committerEric Andersen2001-07-12 20:26:32 +0000
commit7467c8d3b6a50e2cbd8db750963d40b420ad38d1 (patch)
tree10dcece1e0bb88e35aa95c3a68896ad426e43f7a /libbb
parentf69bfc76fa7acb0c87fa3f3b319fde361a8315a8 (diff)
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Patch from vodz:
Changed email address cmdedit API change optimizations for traceroute and md5sum added a new shared create_icmp_socket() function
Diffstat (limited to 'libbb')
-rw-r--r--libbb/create_icmp_socket.c37
-rw-r--r--libbb/libbb.h2
-rw-r--r--libbb/messages.c3
3 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libbb/create_icmp_socket.c b/libbb/create_icmp_socket.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d804b39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libbb/create_icmp_socket.c
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/* 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;
+}
diff --git a/libbb/libbb.h b/libbb/libbb.h
index 224c561..e3d7133 100644
--- a/libbb/libbb.h
+++ b/libbb/libbb.h
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ extern void gz_close(int gunzip_pid);
extern FILE *gz_open(FILE *compressed_file, int *pid);
extern struct hostent *xgethostbyname(const char *name);
+extern int create_icmp_socket(void);
char *dirname (const char *path);
@@ -284,5 +285,6 @@ extern const char * const write_error;
extern const char * const too_few_args;
extern const char * const name_longer_than_foo;
extern const char * const unknown;
+extern const char * const can_not_create_raw_socket;
#endif /* __LIBBB_H__ */
diff --git a/libbb/messages.c b/libbb/messages.c
index 910cb8f..552c3ab 100644
--- a/libbb/messages.c
+++ b/libbb/messages.c
@@ -62,3 +62,6 @@
const char * const unknown = "(unknown)";
#endif
+#ifdef L_can_not_create_raw_socket
+ const char * const can_not_create_raw_socket = "can`t create raw socket";
+#endif